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but they had a feed of beef sometimes, I know they did
for I and Robert Herkes[?] came across a lot of them once
at the back of the Big Hill with the Women with
their nets full of fresh beef = they made off as soon
as they saw us = but we were pretty close before they
sighted us and we saw what they had got = the
Dingo had very few people living on it then and
very few went over that part, you know it is
pretty rough country there. They would often come
to my Brother for little fellow phick" if they were
unwell. It was fun to see the look of them when he
would be asking them if their bowels were relaxed
or confined, they would look like fools, scratch their
heads and stare at him. One Darkey came one day
called "Cobler" he was from the other side of Walcha
had good English = had been a Black tracker in
the Native Police up North and used to brag that
he could talk "Comleroy" = He said he was "murry
bad" got bad pain in his side." Wm gave him a
good looking oiver and gave him two pills to take
at night and let him sleep in the kitchen, next
morning he was "murry bad" still = so he got his
feed &c &c and that night Wm gave him a
blister to put on his side and the next morning
he went to dress the blister taking lard &c - but
when he came to look he could find no trace
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