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The horsemen pulled up. "Hi, mate, have you seen anythin' of a strange sort of animal on this road?" cried Bill. "Have I?" answered the man. "My word, I have! A great, big, red, hairy bunyip 'r somethin' charged out o' th' bush 'bout a mile back, bowled me over an' went howlin' down th' road in a cloud o' dust." "Which way?" gasped Bill. The pedestrian pointed in the direction of Loo.
And I thought I had found the back of beyond, where I would never see anyone more civilized than a bunyip! But I've been here for three months, little lady, and have never come across anyone. Are you sure you're quite serious?" "Quite," Norah answered. "Perhaps it was that no one came across you, you know, because people really do come here to fish.
"He's got a curse on him as big as Mount Macedon, and he does n't know it," muttered Thompson. "Bearing out the prophecy," said I aside to Willoughby, "that the sinner, being a hundred years old, shall be accursed." "You ought to show him a bit more respect, Mosey," remarked Cooper gravely. "Well, to tell you the truth," replied Mosey frankly, "I got no patience with the ole bunyip.
The savants wrangled on the anatomical differences and resemblances of the Bunyip and the Beathach; still the critters were, to the general mind, only stuffed specimens, though unique. At last came the day when, in the huge crowded amphitheatre, with Te-iki- pa by his side, Jones Harvey addressed the congregation.
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.
We suspected that they had headed for the great Debil-devil Waterhole, where, it was said, the Bunyip appeared: that mysterious animal, or devil, or thing, which nobody has ever seen, but many have pretended to see. Now, this must be said of Billy, that he never had the feeling of fear he was never even afraid of me.
Thompson's unpretentious stockwhip was in my hand at the time; and, judging it unlikely that Cleopatra had been broken in to the use of that disquieting implement, I was just turning Bunyip round, when Willoughby stepped forward "Permit me to redeem my unfortunate mistake by assisting you!" he exclaimed. "I have ridden to hounds in England. May I take this horse? Thanks.
I care not an he be the devil; give me faith, say I. By this time, the sun was just setting. I left the bullocks near the boundary fence, turned Bunyip adrift, and placed the saddle and bridle where I could find them again.
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!
There they told the gins, in awe-struck voices, how it had been no Kangaroo they had hunted, but the "Bunyip", who had pretended to be one. And the black gins' eyes grew wider and wider, and they made strange noises and exclamations, as they listened to the story of how the "Bunyip" had led the huntsmen to that dreadful place.
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