For what with low puddin'-thieves disguising themselves as firemen, and low Wombats sneakin' our Puddin' while we're helpin' to put out fires, not to speak of all the worry and bother of tryin' to get information out of parrots and bandicoots an' hedgehogs, why, it's enough to make a man suspect his own grandfather of bein' a puddin'-snatcher.
"The Magic Pudding"
Norman Lindsay
Great girls like you-fightin' like bandicoots!
"The Getting of Wisdom"
Henry Handel Richardson
I have been told that there are places in the more crowded portion rendered perfectly impassable at night in consequence of the effluvia arising from the immense quantities of musk rats, which, together with the common sort, and bandicoots of an incredible size, abound, the narrow close lanes being apparently built for the purpose of affording accommodation to vermin of every description.
"Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay"
Miss Emma Roberts