Gundagai- Home to the "Dog on the Tuckerbox."

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The Dog on the Tuckerbox.

I think when people hear the name 'Gundagai', they straight away think of the Dog on the Tuckerbox.

The Dog on the Tuckerbox Memorial was established based on the old legend of Bill the Bullocky who in 1850 was driving his bullock team when the wagon was stuck in mud.

After an unsuccessful attempt to get the wagon out of the mud, he went to have his lunch where he found his dog sitting on the tuckerbox.

This is the poem that is displayed at the Dog on the Tuckerbox memorial:

As I was coming down Conroy's Gap,

heard a maiden cry:

'There goes Bill the Bullocky,

He's bound for Gundagai.

A better poor old -

Never earned an honest crust,

A better poor old -

Never drug a whip through dust.'

His team got bogged at the Five Mile Creek,

Bill lashed and swore and cried:

'If Nobby don't get me out of this,

I'll tattoo his - hide.'

But Nobby strained and broke the yoke

And poked out the leader's eye:

Then the dog s(h)at on the Tucker Box

Five Miles from Gundagai.

There are gift shops and cafe's near the Memorial as well as the ruins of the old Limestone Inn, sheds and wagons to see in the "Dog on the Tuckerbox" complex.
It really is a wonderful place to visit.

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