1893. `The Herald' (Melbourne), Dec. 23, p. 6, col. 1:
«Every one might not know what a `cobbler' is. It is the lastsheep in a catching pen, and consequently a bad one to shear,as the easy ones are picked first. The cobbler must be takenout before `Sheep-ho' will fill up again. In the harvest fieldEnglish rustics used to say, when picking up the last sheaf,`This is what the cobbler threw at his wife.' `What?' `Thelast,' with that lusty laugh, which, though it might betray `avacant mind,' comes from a very healthy organism.»