Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin
when the two set out and t
" said Jean. "It seems to me there are mor
, maybe eighty-eigh
o the edge of the scrub, beyond them only sand and spinifex. A fire had swept over the wood and left the trees gaunt and bare. T
a thousand gnarled and twisted shapes, their interlacing branches seeming like writhing serpents. Many of the g
her mournful little note. Then the sound of a curlew, like the gasp of a dying child, came to them through the dawn, as the sun rose, red and pitiless, over the sands. Beyond these
ave to cross these san
discouraged. "We go another way, all through the wood. Missa not feel 'fraid
he black boy should preach to her. "But I can't help bei
soon. Think best way now to hunt for road and Missa go lo
at when you have been so good to me? We'll go as slowly as you have to an
little as she did. "Walk little more round edge o
nd coral fern reached knee-deep in tenderest green. Velvet-brown tree ferns rose in the air, wearing a feathery coronet of fronds, and above them grew the
re," said Kadok. "Plenty wate
she cried. "I'd like to bathe in t
tle Missa go to the bushes let water run all over sel
ted while Kadok bathed his foot and filled his water bottle, and then they started off again, tramping this time over a hilly country. They had to take a long rest in the middle of the day while the sun was hot and both were very tired. There was nothing to eat but damper and some roots Kadok had found, and the delay and the scanty meal di
ng to have for s
e. "Damper all gone, n
wed the course of the stream all day and now camped beside its s
exclaimed, "why c
the boy wearily. "Too
Let me see, what can I use for a line?" She thought a minute, then clapped
nd some fuzzy caterpillars, one of which she used for bait. Then she threw her line and sat down where the stream turned at right angles and made a deep, quiet pool. She wait
h, a fine, speckled fellow which Kadok cleaned and roasted on a flat stone heated red hot. The fish was delicious, a
t. She lay and watched the stars, of only a few of which she knew the names, though Ori
ep," said Kadok. "Her
m not afraid,"
ve clouds. He not let Debil-debil loose to-night. Too many t
by a crackling in the bushes. "
little Missa," he w
she said. "Is it one of those ba
maybe," said the black boy, who, with all
re such things as ghos
e knew some one dead. He follow tracks and found dead body in tree. It was bound with knees to chest, tied with cord made from acacia bark and was wrapped in rug of opossum skins. He turn back rug and saw face of friend. Then he wept and
on four feet," said Jean. "And as I don
or awhile, but
omething cool on her face. She sprang up with a cr
e cried, throwing her arm
e has wandered away and we mus
as pleased as she, and
ny and ride safe now. Say good-
her foot she
d leave you! I don't think you're nice at all. You shall come with me to the run. You can ride when your foot is tire
fury scolded, but he obeyed, and soon
ean riding her pony and feeling bright and cheerful. When they reached the road after sever
'm tired of riding and want to walk awhile. Get
ON A PONY LED B
he grumbled, as he climbed slowly on the horse's back. "Gin never
e child in tattered gingham, and two travellers scanned the couple curiously as they urged the
er! F
r's sentence was lost as he clasped the child in h
arth. Parties have been searching ever since, but no one has been successful in finding even a trail. We traced you to the place in the woods where you got off your pony, but beyond that there were no tracks. Kadok says that the Black who took you did not mean any harm. His gin was nearly crazy over the death
had a dreadful time,"
knew she'd think I was killed," she said. Her mother held
ing taken care of now and he shall have a go
g to have a sheep run! I
y, but I am never going back there. Fergus has no end of adventures to tell you, b
l be near Uncle and Au
ked Sandy mi
to be Australians ourselves, now, and of course
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his second book of "Sandman" tales was issued for scores of eager children
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Other Stori
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Brot
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Story of an
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