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"You are not vorking in the right place!" shouted Steel Spring, from his excavation, stopping his labors to watch our movements; "you will find nothing there, I gives you varning. Come and hassist me, and we shall find all the gold!" "Cease your cries," said Smith, sternly; "do you wish to bring a band of bushrangers upon us in this lonely spot, where they can murder us without opposition?"

They may have the same object in view as yourselves, but without your knowledge of the locality of the gold. "If they are bushrangers we will fight them, but if honest people in search of the treasure, we will laugh at them for their pains, and ridicule them for their trouble," the old man continued. "I see that Smith and my daughter have managed to get something to eat.

There were dead trees standing here and there, and their pale trunks took unpleasant shapes they might conceivably be something else than trees not ghosts, of course; there were no such things as ghosts. All the tales he had ever read about Australia suddenly started up in his mind tales of deadly snakes, of bushrangers, of blackfellows, who had methods of their own of doing you in.

Dick entertained his men with talk of the glory they had earned by their actions that night, and predicted a reputation for them beside which the reputation of every other gang of bushrangers Australia had known would fade into insignificance. The boys listened soberly, very elated and perfectly happy. 'But we mustn't let the nex' one go so easy, said the leader.

We have seen him before. He was the longest, brownest, stupidest of the Hawbuck family. The one who could spit further than any of his brothers. "Well, Charley," he said, "is this all true about the bushrangers?" Charles said it was. And they were bailed up in the limestone gully, and all the party were away after them. "Where are you going then?" asked the unfortunate young idiot.

At the same time a party of regulars, Canadians, andIndians took up a strong position near the church at Point Levi, and sent a message to the English officers that a large company of expert hairdressers were ready to wait upon them whenever they required their services. The allusion was of course to the scalp-lifting practices of the Indians and bushrangers.

We answered back that we were ready, and dashed forward just as the ruffians had decided that to hang the woman would be a more pleasant spectacle than to burn her. "Hurrah for Ireland," shouted Mike, springing into the clearing where the enemy were encamped. The bushrangers were so taken by surprise that they had no chance to gain possession of their weapons, or to beat a retreat.

He bought a cheap revolver for there was a talk of bushrangers in the neighborhood and started to walk to George Fielding's farm. He reached it in the evening. "There is no George Fielding here," was the news. "He left this more than six months ago." "Do you know where he is?" "Not I." Robinson had to ask everybody he met where George Fielding was gone to.

I would sooner have faced the most savage gang of bushrangers in Australia than that fearful sound, yet I was so anxious to save my friend that, frightened as I really was, I did not run, or even make a motion to that effect.

I could do no less than follow his example, although I confess that I considered my time as having nearly arrived, when I got off my horse, and even when attempting to roll the dying animal from the body of the inspector, I wondered why the deuse the bushrangers did not pick us off without mercy.