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A long, low room, with a sanded floor, discolored walls and a small window, provided with a heavy baize curtain, ready to be drawn on emergency.
Round the room were benches set against the wall, and in front of the benches were dirty deal tables stained with liquor. The smoke from the chimney of the stinking oil lamp mixed with the rank tobacco fumes from the clay pipes of the assembled company. This was the interior of the sly grog shop known as the 'Sheer Hulk,' situated in one of the most desperate quarters of Sydney--the place called the 'Rocks.'