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first "Fire place" that I was at, a Darkey had
come from Mt Vernon at Larrays Flat to ask me
about a horse that ran about Kimbriki, I knew
where it was to be found and went out with him to
find it, he was riding a young horse, and when we
got to the top of the hill at the back he asked me
to lend him my knife to cut up some tobacco, I
had no sooner given the knife to him than the
horse began to buck, and bucked in earnest
and he put the knife into his pocket and as the
horse kept bucking lots of times untill the horse
was found he went away with my knife in his
pocket and I forgot all about it untill I got home,
I gave it up for lost as I did not know the Darkies
name but at the "Cabra Ground" some months
after, a Blackfellow all pipeclay from head to
foot, came and said, "You don't know me? You mind
you bin lend me knife when horse buck, I been put
him in pocket = bait loose him. I bin bring him
You look out, I give him you when Fire Place done
and he did not had got it wraped up in a peice
of rag, Not bad for a Blackfellow, I never knew
them to steal from one another = except that Graimering
(Gramering was stealing) Mickey that was kille
at the Bo Bo = once some of them took a small
keg of tobacco from Paddy Conoley's once, I don't