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Possum & Bear taste too much of Gum leaves to be liked
by a White, Birds they did not do too much with, Turckeys
they could spear, and their eggs were hunted up
a great lot used to be got out of a nest - Ducks they
sometimes got, and the Black swans = these were sort
of extras, Wallaby, Paddymelon and Opossum were their
main dependance, I have seen the Gins at Cooplacuraph
go out and in half an hour return with three or four
Possums = They would cut them out of the hollow trees
After some years they did not hunt much., I doubt if
some of the young Darkies that are about now could
throw a spear streight or go up a tree, or get a living
in the Bush = they got into a way of trying to be
like a "Whitefellow", Once at Bungay there were
a lot camping there and they made if up to be
like "Whitefellow" & Keep Xmas and have "Plumb duff
so "Bobby belonging to Robert" bought some flour, sugar,
plumbs, &c and Mary undertook to make the duff
they borrowed a three leged iron pot - but sad to say
she forgot all abouut the cloth to boil it in - when
Bobby went to see if the duff was done it was
soup - Bob capside the pot, and there was a row
instead of a Xmas. The Children always look-
ed fat and well and like all Children all over
the world, full of mischief, I never saw them play
at any games = their only game was throwing Paddymelon
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