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The Big Shed Rural Heritage Yarns !

Side Splitting Yarns


Guests are entertained by side splitting yarns, historical stories and anecdotes. Many of these stories have been passed down through the Locker family generation to generation.

Here's a short one.

"My father told me once that he stayed overnight with Old Dick Brayshaw out at Boboyan. Now Dick was one of the old mountain men, tried and true, and my father said that they came out early one morning, and were standing looking at Sentry Box [Hill] which was down the valley from where Dick had his home. And overnight there had been a snowfall, and the mountain was covered with snow.

And my father made the comment that "It would be fairly cold up there this morning, Dick".

And Old Dick replied, "Yes, that's pretty right," he said, "and I wouldn't like to be up there wearing nothing but a pair of long neck spurs"."


The Big Shed Rural Heritage Yarns !