Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 137

a stumpy tail, & with his help used to muster & dip mobs of up to 80 head. Used to say to him what about it Bosca? do you think that you & BOSS can muster, yard, & dip this little lot on our own. He would not only wag his stumpy tail, but wagged the whole of his rump, & guess you ought to see how he would work.

Would at times hear him growl when sitting on a log waiting for someone, & would see someone, not one of my bunch, up to 1/2 a mile away.

In 1887 amongst the blue dogs on Miriam Vale was a short called PHOEBIE, she was a beauty, & had been given away as a puppy, taken to GLADSTONE, & when about 18 months old the old Miriam Vale head stockman brought her back for ? For quite a while she would go out with the other dogs mustering, & take no notice of the cattle, then one day with a big mob of 700 or 800, she went to & fro along the tail of the mob heeling like the other dogs. Some station owners won't use dogs, say they are no good, they are no good if the owner does not know how to work them, but would not like to work cattle without a dog. 

Oh well when one is just on 80 it is nice to think of some of your good old dogs, ? & your stock horses too, especially the good camp horses.