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Livingston Hopkins, Calf Government, The Bulletin, Vol. 10 No. 503 (5 Oct 1889, p.3) http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-443495167
Calf Government“Lord Hopetoun has given an order for 300 liveries to an Edinburgh firm.”—Cable.Tailor (to newly-appointed Australian Governor of the Hopetoun type): “And I suppose your Lordship would like to have your men well set up—a little wadding here and there about the shoulders?”Governor: Aw, cawnt say I’m a great stickler for chest and shoulders, bur let us have plenty of buttons and a wealth of calf. There's nothing so much helps to ‘draw closer those silken cords which unite,’ etc., etc., as plenty of calf at Government House!”
