Was talking to a mate on the weekend and he reminded me of a funny story that we were involved in many years ago when we both worked together in a large gang of men in the west.
There was this old bloke who when we stopped for lunch always and I mean always went to answer the call of nature and it was behind the same tree every time. My mate noticed that this old bloke had this strange habit of when he completed his business he would pick up a handy stick and carefully study the results of his labours before proceeding to redress himself and returning to the group.

My mate decided to play a bit of a game with this bloke so during the course of a morning took a small piece of galvanised iron over to this guys tree and tied a roll of string to the iron and placed it on the ground and covered it with grass and leaves etc.

The old guy as usual went to the tree at lunch time carried out his business and grabbed a stick the mate had put a few feet away, while he was getting the stick my mate who had hidden behind another tree at the end of the string pulled the piece of iron away with the string and with the old guys dump sitting on the iron.

The poor old bloke turned around to check his dump and could'nt find it . He walked around and around the tree with this lost look on his face scratching at the ground trying to find his lost item and spent the rest of the afternoon with a bewildered look and every now and then he would walk over and go round the tree again.

Never told him what had been done and for days you could see him spin around to make sure that everything was working OK during the course of his labours.
Cheers Furphy

Er mikel, forget the spare Aladdin glass, you don't happen to have a spare camp oven there you could let me have for while, I promise to look after it, that big one on the left there looks good, heheh.
Rob.

I was looking at a display of old farming implements at Lockhart in Victoria a couple of years ago and one of the items on display was a rabbit poisoning machine, a large funnel on wheels dragged behind a horse. The instructions were printed on a sheet and went something like this:
Lay baits of diced apple or carrot around fence line and continue this for several days .
When rabbits are used to baits, introduce Strychnine to bait bin at the rate of ......
Be sure to wipe hands well before eating after handling poison.

No wonder there is a shortage of farm workers, they probably all died  trying to eradicate the rabbit plague.

Gee Kel that mikel is a suspicious bugger, I was only trying to help a mate look after all his black pots and he talks about putting his dogs onto me !!!  mmmmm even dogs gotta go to sleep sometime.
Rob.

Gee wazza, I'd think you'd be the greatest risk to Mike.   What with those 8 kids and all, you need some big pots!!!!