Another Epitaph

This text is from the defunct Tracker magazine, and was written by Chris Munro. It's from an account of Wiradjuri men Yarri and Jacky Jacky's heroic rescue of nearly 70 people from the 1852 Gundagai flood, now commemorated by a statue. The Wiradjuri people had been warning the town that an environmental disaster was inevitable. Anyway:

"John Spencer, a relative of the town’s punt owner and also the Inn Keeper spent 36 hours in a tree until Yarri came for him. Spencer was near frozen and completely naked at the time, save for a cash box strapped around his neck."