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in, & said BOO HOO. They all tried to get thro the back window at once, & raced into the station living room, where Mr & Mrs ROBERTSON & PHIL ELIOT were playing cards, & all the explanation they could give was big fellow BOO HOO. 

ROSEDALE the LITTLES station was 35  miles SE. TORKEY STATION was a block of country belonging to Mr NORTON of RODDS BAY, that he did not want, & he let my Uncle EUSTON BLOMFIELD have it. My father sold some good blocks of land near the Court  House in Gladstone, & gave his brother the money to buy cattle. He also bought a stallion ALBERT VICTOR by the BARB, & some mares.

No fences to look after, no ticks, & the owner of TORKEY put in most of his time in Gladstone until old JIMMY WORTHINGTON pressed him for £80 that he owed. Take the D station, & give me a receipt, & that is how the Worthington got TORKEY.  Heard it was valued at £42000 in 1920.

There were many ups & downs same as there always will be, & the ?

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