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The BURNET at GAYNDAH was just not a swim for Brown & Larrie & we got the gear along, & across in a boat.

The bullocks had to swim tho, & would have been quite all right but it was Sunday, & all the population came on foot to the top of a high bank on the town side, where the bullocks had to land, & some of them got into a boggy place, but we got them out & along.

Cant think that Old Mr CONNELLY was there, even then he was old enough to have more sense. He died in 1919 in his one hundred & third year.

We might have put up with George's sour dampers, but could not spare a hand to drive the horses for him. My first experience of sacking a man, & did not like it.

We got an old Asyrian (sic), or some breed of an Asiatic to cook & his first damper was a beaut.

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