On the road to Gundagai no less, the Dog on the Tuckerbox is a tale of persevering pioneer spirit.
Inspired initially by a poem by a fellow by the name of Bowyang Yorke who published a poem called Bullocky Bill back in 1857. It was about one of his mates Bullocky Bill who was having a rather bad day. He got his bullock wagon bogged in the mud and couldn’t get it out no matter how hard he tried. So he decide to knock off and have a bite to eat. But he found his dog perched up on his tuckerbox and all his mated thought that it was a great laugh”
The folklore surrounding the dog on the tuckerbox has a lot to do with the persevering pioneer spirit. In the 1920’s a poet by the name of Jack Moses popularised the story with his poem “9 miles from Gundagai” But the oldest poem is one called Bullocky Bill.
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