1880. W. Senior, `Travel and Trout,' p. 36:
"His troutship, having neglected to secure a line of retreat, was, in colonial parlance, `bailed up.'"
1880. G. Walch, `Victoria in 1880,' p.133:
"The Kelly gang . . . bailed up some forty residents in the local public house."
1882. A. J. Boyd, `Old Colonials,' p. 76:
"Did I ever get stuck-up? Never by white men, though I have been bailed up by the niggers."
1885. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia,' p. 105:
"A little further on the boar `bailed up' on the top of a ridge."
1888. Rolf Boldrewood, `Robbery under Arms,' p. 368:
"One of the young cows was a bit strange with me, so I had to shake a stick at her and sing out `Bail up' pretty rough before she'd put her head in. Aileen smiled something like her old self for a minute, and said, `That comes natural to you now, Dick, doesn't it ?' I stared for a bit and then burst out laughing.It was a rum go, wasn't it? The same talk for cows and Christians. That's how things get stuck into the talk in a new country. Some old hand like father, as had been assigned to a dairy settler, and spent all his mornings in the cow-yard, had taken to the bush and tried his hand at sticking up people. When they came near enough of course he'd pop out from behind a tree, with his old musket or pair of pistols, and when he wanted `em to stop, `Bail up, d— yer,' would come a deal quicker and more natural-like to his tongue than `Stand.' So `bail up' it was from that day to this, and there'll have to be a deal of change in the ways of the colonies, and them as come from `em before anything else takes its place between the man that's got the arms and the man that's got the money."