Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 147
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due for promotion & would not have any of the old crock but pointed to the one he wanted. It was caught & saddled up but did not like Jimmy's style of climbing on, & sent him sky high. Many years after, until an old old man, he was know as Miriam Vale Jimmy. To the best of my belief he never got on a horse again. But he could run, not walk, up a big tree with his climbing vine & no steps. In mustering, fat or fattening cattle, (or any cattle) the abos (aboriginals) taught me never to let them go out of a walk, & when driving a mob on your own, & having no one to go in the lead, you must be able to anticipate when the mob are inclined to trot, & you must pull your horse up until they are quite a way ahead especially going down hill. We tried to teach a lad of 18 a son of two of my friends to let cattle go slowly, he always rode right on their backs on the top of a hill, as they started