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These images portray the Rawsons’ reaction to dingoes and the local bird life who seem to consume quantities of their garden. The pleasures of butterfly netting are being enjoyed by Charley and Mr Lacy, the results would have seemed quite exotic to newcomers to North Queensland.
1 October 1877
‘All set , my boy, stir him up! ‘Look to then, he’s just afore ye.’ Charley and Ned run a native dog into a hollow log at the head of the “Rice Flat”
27 September 1877
‘Hush Ned, I’m going to catch twenty at least. Isn’t it a grand idea!’ Charley and Lacy to the Nyth in morning. Lacy left in aft having borrowed “Count” for a trip to Broadsound. Charley Winney & Paddy to the Nyth at 3pm. Ned walked back with them. Decima doing the complete bird-catcher
21 April 1877
Mr and Mrs Lacy, Winnie & Charley out for a ride in morning via the Pocket, Hamilton and the Nyth. CR and Lacy, butterfly hunting in aftern. Hector working water windle.
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