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"ref": "2011, Buck Peden, Baseball, Golf, Wars, Women & Puppies: An Autobiography, page 278",
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"text": "1964, Alec Bolton, Walkabout′s Australia, Walkabout magazine, page 107,\nThe ringers are the stockmen on a station. The cattle pass through their hands before the drovers lift them and take them along the stock routes that lead to the killing pens in cities."
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