== 4 September 1911 ==
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'''THE CREDIT SYSTEM''' The Byrnes seemed to be pretty hard up sometimes. They ran in a long score with me." Resuming the old storeman reminiscent it. "Then things got worse and worse and they had no tucker at all. So one day [[Mrs Margaret Byrne|Mrs Byrne]] came along and said she was ashamed but they had nothing and would I let her have a bag of flour. Well, I knew she had cattle running in the hills, and she said she'd sell some of them and pay me . Of course, a man had to keep sweet with the people there, when they got in on him at all. He had to keep them going if he wanted to get his own back. So I packed the cart with a bag of flour and about 12cwt. of other food, and started off.