[Howard]

The story of the dog on the tucker box has been lost to time, however there are a few poems written about the subject that I will dig out & post, when I find my trusty Banjo Patterson book.
The story goes that a bullock team had been passing through Gundagai, and after setting up camp, went into town (or another camp). The dog stayed at camp, keeping guard of his tuckerbox. The driver never came back, they say he was killed, but the dog stayed, faithfully keeping guard, never letting anyone near the box, until its own death many years later.
True or not, I don't know, but that is the story to the best of my recollection.
Some say that this story sprung up after the famous poem, and the actual dog is a work of fiction. Whatever, It's not a bad yarn.