Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 29
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in the ring with a bump on his back, & bet that no one could get on his back, & they could not. Then he would let some boys get on his back, & he would buck & squeal like a horse. A good yarn told about Billy, who was out west looking for a job. He was asked if he could ride, he was nothing out of the box according to himself but he was game. They got him a horse that no one on the station had ever ridden, & he bucked better than anyone had seen him do before, & when he had finished Billy got off & said "it was a good thing he only pig jumped, he nearly had me" & he meant it too. The BULLETIN says the difference between a buck & a pig jump is, "when you are on him he is bucking, when the other fellow is on he is pig-jumping". Billy can't have read the Bully.
The parsons track from MIRIAM VALE to NORTON over the range was a mark- tree line, made by Yorkie & Johnny was made for parson MICHAELJOHN a GLADSTONE, scotch patrician(?) parson