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their time, & going to sleep in the middle of the mob, while we were tailing them, waiting for the KOLAN to be crossable. He came to get away from his wife, & we thought it a shame to separate man & wife, & let him go. Tho she never did me any harm. Must not forget my blue cattle dog, "BUCK" who was a great help when we had to swim rivers, & he helped us keep the bullock on the camp on my watch at night. Some of the others tried to get Buck to work, & he would just give them "a who the Hell are you look."

If a beast or two stayed behind, a waive (sic) of the hand, or a look, or nod from me, was all he wanted to trot quickly up to them & walk them into the mob. Would ? not to see them at times, & he would wait for a while, & then go himself. He used to bark at times when working mixed cattle, with other

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