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mare could not shift it, & we finally got it out with what they called a STOCKDOLAGER worked by hand with a long rail for a lever, on the same idea as the present PAGE wire strainer. The big ring chain is now on the Sarivelo? gallons? When my father was told about it, he said that he & FRITZ HERMAN a German, who had been taken over with the place, & had been there about two years, cut it & he said My Lord I was(sic) remember that tree when it was a little sapling. I(t) must have been at least 150 years old.

Will never forget my first trip to Miriam Vale in 1885. The thermometer was doing to 16 degrees the morning we left BOOROLONG, & going along ? morning past DEPWATER(sic), in Cobb & Co's coach, the ice could be heard crunching under the wheels. We pulled in about 4AM to change horses, & have a cup of tea, & a warm, & the icicles in old BOB BETTS beard partly melted.

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