| This might be way off target but didn't Sydney have some fairly major sewage/odour issues around the 1870s and with Hyde Park being close to the harbour it may just be a piece of proximity slang so to speak.
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If horses would have hands and could paint with their hands and create works of art like the humans, then horses would form and paint the gods with the shape of horses and they would build sculptures according to their own bodies.
- Xenophanes
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