1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 26, p. 4. col. 6:
"The game of sticking up hotels used to be in the old days a popular one, and from the necessary openness of the premises the practice was easy to carry out."
(3) Humorously applied to a collector or a beggar. In `Twenty- five Years of St. Andrews' (vol. ii. p. 87), A. K. H. B. tells a story of a church dignitary, who was always collecting money for church building. When a ghost appeared at Glamis Castle, addressing the ghost, the clergyman began—that "he was most anxious to raise money for a church he was erecting; that he had a bad cold and could not well get out of bed; but that his collecting-book was on the dressing-table, and he would be `extremely obliged' for a subscription." An Australian would have said he "stuck up" the ghost for a subscription.
1890. E. W. Hornung, `A Bride from the Bush,' p. 297:
"You never get stuck up for coppers in the streets of the towns."
(4) Bring a kangaroo to bay.
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. iii. p. 24:
"We knew that she had `stuck up' or brought to bay a large forester."
1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 15:
"The fiercest fighter I ever saw `stuck up' against a red gum-tree."