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but did not think much of it = there was Crammering
Mickey, he was killed about Flash Plains on the BoBo Creek.
I don't know what he was killed for = perhaps he had
bewitched some one, or had told some woman some of the
secrets of the "Cabra Ground", or had let some woman or
Boy see the Cabra Stones - either of those crimes were
punished by death, We got Mickeys scull[skull] and the last
time I was in Sydney I saw it in the Museam,[sic] I knew it
by the mark of the tomahawk on it that killed him, he
was a great thief, as his name will tell you, he would
even steal from the other Blacks, which they all seamed[seemed] to
despise him for = Bony was a splendid made man = but he
was a sulkey[sic] beast = quite as sulkey as he looked = I nearly had
my head split once through him, He had coxed[coaxed] away another
Blacks gin & the Darkey came after her, Boney was clearing
off the Brush near the house & the gin was planted in a
big Fig tree near there & I was working with Boney = after
a lot of talk between them, and lots of abuce[abuse] the Darkey, Henry
let fly a Boomarang at Boney, I only ducked in time, &
cleared out, leaving them to it, Henry did not find his
Woman, Boney did not keep her long = She went off with
another man, Boney was going to give her a hiding one
day when she left her blanket behind and got hold of Father
by the back of his coat and kept dodging round him - keping[keeping]
him between her & Boney untill[sic] Father got him pacified
it was great fun, seing[seeing] Father trying to shake the Woman
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