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They tied the sick man on the horse and trudged back to the station in a bad plight. As I came near the group I heard my wife say to Billy, who looked sadly haggard and ill, that she was sure he would have got the Bunyip if it hadn't been for the terrible drought; and at that, regardless of my presence, he took her by the arms and kissed her, and then she kissed him several times.
"Never will he speak again," says he, and I am bound to say that I hev heard the critter discourse once. The mummy let some awful yells out of him when the fire-bugs came aboard. 'Yes, we heard a human cry, said Bude. 'I had thought the talk was managed with a concealed gramophone, said the captain, 'but it wasn't. The Bunyip from Central Australia has gone to his long home.
"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.
I cheered the parting guests by howling still more heartily, and firing my two remaining barrels over their heads as they ran. They went as swiftly as a motor-car disappears from view I believe they reckoned they'd seen the bunyip. I haven't seen a trace of them since. "They'd had a fine time inside the tent.
In due time, the stars paled to indistinctness, then to invisibility, and the landscape came into view in the fresh, chilly dawn, showing a strong grey horse feeding with Fancy and Bunyip, two hundred yards away. I was in no hurry to start, but my friends were like greyhounds in the leash.
I have an excellent memory for forgetting. Would you think I was a bunyip? I'd be delighted if you could!" "I couldn't." Norah shook her head. "But I'll tell you what I think you are." "Do." "A hermit!" The old man's face cleared. "My dear Miss Norah," he said, "you've made a profound discovery. I am I am a hermit! Thank you very much.
Many were the young men, therefore, who forsook the trains of Mrs. Fitzherbert, of Miss Golding, Lady Bunyip, the Countess of Carment, and Mrs. Arlington herself to be introduced to Patsy. Louis himself was compelled, much against his will, to make some of these presentations. Captain Laurence, having incautiously admitted that he had some slight acquaintance with the young beauty and her chaperon, found himself victimized by half a regiment at a time. Patsy soon had partners in plenty, and the Prince Eitel, who had looked forward to a pleasant tête-
Gipp's Land is a large district about twice the size of Wales, which begins at a place called Bunyip, about fifty miles to the east of Melbourne. The train to Sale, the capital there are two a day takes about six hours, and the distance is 127 miles. As there are no engineering difficulties, the line did not cost more than £6000 a mile.
He had often said he had seen a Bunyip, and that he'd bring one home some day, but no one took him seriously. It showed what great influence he had over his companions, that he could induce them to go with him; for Bingong, being a native, must naturally have a constitutional fear of the Debil-debil, as the Bunyip is often called.
'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.
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