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''Xeroxed from original in possession of Gwyn Hutchinson 1977''
List of {[?] } gear {[?] }
1 Aboriginal male, {[? wall eyed] } near & off side
1 Do female {[? Lanninites] } both {[? hind] } {[? legs] }
1 Dray very tender bottom, otherwise in good health
{| | 1 Set shaft harness | rowspan=2 | John Withnell & I did a {[? trip] } from Roebourne with it about 1888. |- | 2 Sets trace Do |}
{| | 2 Pieds |rowspan=3| In good order, but to look at these sort of implements makes me shudder. |-
| 2 L H Shovels |
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| 1 Bobtailed Do |
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1 Loose Dray Tail {[? Loused] }. Been nibbled by silver fish.
1 Meat Bucket. Wrongly listed, it's time {[?] } is a fire extinguisher. See tail of Simmon's shirt plugging warm ?? valve.
1 E P Damper Dish in good order & condition.
{| | 1 Grey Mare |rowspan=2| {[? Slainich] } & quiet. Even professional {[? Hogham] } would approve of their expression. You should join the {[? Goyem] } {[? Housing] } Club found |- | 1 Brown Do |}
and untie them, as they are roosting on the seven mile mill about 20 minutes after I let them go in hobbles.
1 Scoop ... , but the scoop found {[? ind…ineible] }.
1 Heather Chinchilla, Tailed but not earmarked.
1 {[? Gemmon] } Bit
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2 Foals. Should you wish to do any ?? with these two about, detail one man to stand by and do nothing else but fire at them with rock salt and {[? 12] } inch nine tails.
1 bag ??
2 ??
1 Bill Thrupp slightly new
H.A.H.
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black horse Woody used to {[? drive] } in Tin Hut, Larrakin (I think his name was) that very showy colt Hubert broke in with a blemished {[?] } is now a quiet old {[? crock] }, to {[? agg…] } has a humble food, she had just gone lame when I finished up at Croydon.
There hasn't been any two inches of rain either here or at [?] [? Tin Hut] is good, only horses in it, Standing Pool, [? Kajajeena] & [? Boong] as middling.
I forgot to tell you that Alec McRae would like a puppy if you still have any to spare. Furthermore when Keith Mackay saw my pup he said he would put in for one at an early date. Tell Frank I haven't found any [? Nuns] up the [? Nunnery] but struck a python that [? timed] his 24 [? footes] into the sting on a paper parcel
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My fellow had electric head lights, a sparking plug in his tail, that could sling you 14 feet if you touched it & he swallowed a pack horse with the pack saddle & bags on easily, excepting that he coughed slightly when one of the pack saddle hooks made a small wound about 14 feet long in his side through which the pack horse escaped unhurt. If Frank has anything better than this up his trouser leg let him [? list] it out & I will see what I can hunt up on the table land in the way of OS worms.
Aubrey Hall