Pioneering days of Miriam Vale and district', Queensland by W. G. Blomfield, 1946-1947 - Page 63
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& threw his body into HOUSE CREEK about 1/4 mile above the GIN GIN road crossing. Old Mr Roe helped get his body out & you could never induce him to eat EEL after.
Some time after Yorkie was sent to WARRO to borrow a bag of sugar & many years after showed me the log that DICKY YABRON'S ghost sat on. It was nearly dark & YORKIE saw someone walking along the road towards him, & thinking it was his brother TOMMY coming to meet him, said "is that you Tommy" but still no answer. Then he been sit on that log, & I been know that him DICKY YABRON'S ghost. Then I been hit old BLUS MARE (with the pack on) & been hit my horse, & never been stop till we been get to the gate into the house paddock.
Asked a very old abo if old YELLOWMAN or any of the old blacks had told him what sort bush fires they had before the white men came,