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made 15/- a weeks wages in those days. Another boy CHARLIE chased a horse that would not stay with the mob (in a paddock where undergrowth was so thick that a dog would have a job to bark) for about two miles, & flogged him with his stock whip most of the way. It was up to me then, & the horse thinking that Charlie was still after it, broke the top rail of a fence (which let me through),  ran into a four wire fence & fell thro. The gate into the yard was open, & if it had been a football match the try or goal would have been credited to me for shutting the gate.

The abos were artists at getting on or off a horse, tho no better than a good white man.

We gave Yorkie a horse to ride one day, it was quite quiet, & never saw an abo or a white man get into the saddle so neatly or quietly. Yorkie was an elderly man then.

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