Tadjee Limerick

Portrait of Tadjee Limerick: When I get married, I was in Ashburton. My old husband used to work there. Then, we went to Red Hill, stay down there. And next minute we went to Yannery Station. Stop there. Working long time. And, after that we come back to Koordarrie Station, not far from Minderoo, stay ‘round there, working. That’s the last job for us. No more jobs. We went to town then. Onslow, stay in Onslow. We’d go sheep driving and we’d go camp, one night fill the tank up for the sheep. They was good. I never used to work. My husband used to work, that’s all. I used to cook for him. We used to go to town, shopping and come back with the boss. I think they all die now, poor things. I come to Koordarrie, and I find my friends there, Eileen and Kathleen and old girl who passed away. They all been reared up with me. We used to go looking for kangaroo, bring a kangaroo back. We used to steal a kangaroo dog and go! And the old people used to say “Ahhh! Those girls gone now, they’ve run away with the kangaroo dogs!” Well them kangaroo dog, he knows, we going kangarooing and they used to kill it for us. And they used to cry out, singing out for us. And we used to bring ‘em back. Back to the old ladies down the river, they used to feed us, cook the damper. One day we get married, we was finished then. None of us want to go with the man. “Come on! Let’s run away down the river! Hide away!” we said. I moved around on stations with my husband then.