It is quite free from impurities; this is acknowledged far and wide.

As in the German Empire all cultivated people claim to speak Hanovarian German, so in Australasia all cultivated people claim to speak Ballarat English.
Even in England this cult has made considerable progress, and now that it is favored by the two great Universities, the time is not far away when Ballarat English will come into general use among the educated classes of Great Britain at large.

Its great merit is, that it is shorter than ordinary English--that is, it is more compressed.

At first you have some difficulty in understanding it when it is spoken as rapidly as the orator whom I have quoted speaks it.

An illustration will show what I mean.
When he called and I handed him a chair, he bowed and said: "Q." Presently, when we were lighting our cigars, he held a match to mine and I said: "Thank you," and he said: "Km." Then I saw.