The following Victorian place-names are all mentioned in the various roads and bridges reports of the Victorian Country Roads Board.
When I next take a country tour
By rustic hill and valley,
My way I'll seek by Fat Cow Creek
Or round by Pretty Sally.
To Break-o-day, that leads to Yea,
Or Whalebone Creek I'll journey,
Or inch by inch up Devil's Pinch
Seek pleasant roads and ferny.
The distant view by Cockatoo
No bill-board here shall sully;
Or I may go by old Blind Joe
Or down to Dead Horse Gully.
By many a mile to Wait-a-While
I'll wend, if here may car go,
Or double back Insolvent's Track
That struggles down from Dargo.
Thro' byways strange on Fainting Range,
To Turnback may I well go;
By vistas green at Seldom-Seen,
Past many a Devil's Elbow.
Or I may jog by Haden's Bog,
And on to Flash Camp follow,
To risk a fall at Bust-me-gall
And end in Dirty Hollow.
First published in The Herald, 7 July 1932
Author reference sites: C.J. Dennis, Austlit, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian Poetry Library
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