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Updated: May 22, 2025
They looked at each other with horror, cold shivers running down their spines; for though they had never beheld it, there was not a man amongst them who did not know what it was the cub of the awful Bunyip!
The Bunyip!" and they tumbled over one another in their hurry to get away from a place haunted, as they thought, by that wicked demon which they fear so much. At full speed they fled back to their camp, with the sound of Dot's cries, and the mysterious bellowing noise, following them on the breeze; and they never stopped running until they regained the light of their camp fires.
'What could it be? they asked one of another; 'there was not a cloud in the sky, yet the water had risen higher already than they had ever known it do before. For an instant they stood watching as if they were frozen, then they turned and ran with all their might, the man with the Bunyip running faster than all.
'Tricked! cried the ex-trooper, jumping to his feet tricked by the great Blue Bunyip! Tricked like a kid! He turned and ran for the troopers. 'I surmise Mr. Solo was lurkin' behind them there whiskers, said a tall, thin Californian, when the party had somewhat recovered the surprise. Jim started, recalling the encounter with Long Aleck in the Melbourne bar.
Billy himself had pushed his cause as bravely as possible, and had in fact visited the Little Black Billabong, where he always maintains he had seen the great Bunyip. But after watching one night, they tried to push on to the Debil-debil Waterhole.
On striking the corner of the paddock, I went through a gate, and was closing and securing it behind Bunyip and Pup, when I became aware of a stout-built, blackbearded man on a fat bay horse, approaching along the inside of the fence. "Rory?" said I inquiringly. "Well-to-be-shure!
By this time it was getting near sunset, and the plain was in shadow, though the tops of the mountains were still quite bright. The youths had all ceased to be afraid, when they were startled by a low rushing sound behind them, and, looking round, saw that the pool was slowly rising, and the spot where they had landed the Bunyip was quite covered.
Midway between Dandenong and the Bunyip he passed the hut of Big Mat, a new settler from Melbourne, and obtained from him some information about the best route to follow. It began to rain heavily, and it was difficult to ford the swollen creeks before arriving at the Big Hill. At Shady Creek there was nothing for the horses to eat, and beyond it the ground became treacherous and full of crabholes.
But being always, I trust, superior to anything like surprise, I saddled and mounted Bunyip, took Cleopatra by the rein, and joined the Ishmaelites, who, on their bare-backed horses, were hurrying contingents of cattle from different directions toward the gap of the fence, whilst the fascination of overhanging danger bore so heavily on their personal and professional dignity that every eye kept an anxious look-out toward the ram-paddock.
"Well," said I, feigning great irony, "all loves must have their day, both old and new. You see how they've deserted you. Yet you smile at it!" "Indeed, my lord and master," she said, "it is not a thing to laugh at. It's very serious." "And what has broken the charm of your companionship?" I asked. "The mere matter of the fabled Bunyip. He claimed that he had seen it, and I doubted his word.
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