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    Question Dog on the Tucker Box !

    Hi Guys,

    More curious than anything else. I bought a bottle of Australian Cabernet Sauvignon the other day, the label suggesting that the name on the bottle "Dog on the Tucker Box !" was a legend from the Murray river region of Australia, without giving any other details !

    It spiked my interest when I saw the bottle so I bought a couple ! A very nice smooth full bodied red wine. My normal preferred Australian wine is a Shiraz which beats all the other Shiraz wines hands down.

    So can anybody enlighten me on the Dog on the Tucker Box ! story.

    Thanks:
    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Hi Michael,

    Thank you very much for that link and satisfying my curiosity .
    I would never have thought of Wikipedia.

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    Best Regards:
    Baron J.

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    Its a long drive from where I live, but been passed it 10 or so times

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    Hi BaronJ

    I think many of us older folk know of the Dog on The Tucker Box through the poem below. I enjoy Australian bush poetry and so here it is.

    This is a poem from Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse (1923) by Jack Moses.]

    Nine Miles from Gundagai.
    The Dog and the Tucker Box.

    I’ve done my share of shearing sheep,
    Of droving, and all that,
    And bogged a bullock team as well
    On a Murrumbidgee flat.
    I’ve seen the bullock stretch and strain,
    And blink his bleary eye,
    And the dog sit on the tucker box
    Nine miles from Gundagai.

    I’ve been jilted, jarred, and crossed in love,
    And sand-bagged in the dark,
    Till if a mountain fell on me
    I’d treat it as a lark.
    It’s when you’ve got your bullocks bogged,
    That’s the time you flog and cry,
    And the dog sits on the tucker box,
    Nine miles from Gundagai.

    We’ve all got our little troubles
    In life’s hard, thorny way;
    Some strike them in a motor car,
    And others in a dray.
    But when your dog and bullocks strike,
    It ain’t no apple pie,
    And the dog sits on the tucker box,
    Nine miles from Gundagai.

    But that’s all past and dead and gone,
    And I’ve sold the team for meat,
    And perhaps some day where I was bogged
    There’ll be an asphalt street.
    The dog — ah! well he got a bait,
    And thought he’d like to die,
    So I buried him — in the tucker box,
    Nine miles from Gundagai.



    Source:
    Jack Moses, Beyond the City Gates: Australian Story & Verse, Sydney: Austral Publishing Co., 1923, pages 26-27 (the related picture is on p. 26)

    Editor’s notes:
    bait = poison bait, such as that laid out for foxes

    tucker = food

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    Not far from me but close to a coupe of hundred k's from the Murray. The Murrumbidgee runs through Gundagai just down the road.

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