"Nine Miles From Gundagai" is a poem by Australian poet Jack Moses.

[1] It was first published in the poet's collection of poetry and stories Beyond the City Gates : Australian Story and Verse[2] in 1923, and later in a number of other Australian poetry anthologies.

The poet relates the story of his dog who sat on the tucker box nine miles outside the New South Wales town of Gundagai to guard its contents.

After its initial publication in the Beyond the City Gates : Australian Story and Verse collection in 1923, the poem was reprinted as follows: The original tale of the "dog on the tuckerbox" dates to a doggerel poem, "Bullocky Bill", published anonymously by "Bowyang Yorke" in 1857.

In that poem the distance to Gundagai is given as "five Miles" but Moses reportedly change dthe distance to "nine miles" as he believed it had "more music in it.