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The reptile was on the alert, though, and raised its spade-shaped head high above its coils, displaying a pair of tiny diamond-bright eyes for a few moments, before a blow from the end of a spear dashed it down, broken and quivering. "Mumkull bite a fellow," said Jackum. "Makum swellum. Brrr!"
But the monster, which must have been some fourteen feet long, only rose a little so that his black triangular fin appeared above the surface. Jackum grinned, stooped, and picked up one of a bundle of spears which lay along at the side, and handed it to the boy, signing to him to stand up in the boat.
Lookye here, my lad, you must be 'bout starving." "Starving, Bob? I had not thought of it," said the boy, sadly. "Then I'll think for you. I say you must have something, and so must I. Fellow's engine won't work without coal. Hi! Jackum! Something to eat?" The black bounded to his side. "Jackum want eat. Baal hab bit snakum." "More you did, Sootie; but you shall have something better. Come along."
"I never could think you were dead, my boy," was whispered in Carey's ear; "and your dear mother always felt the same. I knew I should find you, and I have, thank God! thank God!" "Car-ee's ole man?" said a voice just after, and Mr Cranford turned sharply round to stare at the shining black face. "Yes," he said, frowning; "I am Carey's er old man." "Me Jackum! You shake han'?"
"That you, Jackum?" he said, softly, and he stretched out his hand, to find it touched the black's rough head, which seemed to press itself into his palm. "Iss. Jackum eat big lot. 'Top here now. Car-ee go sleep." The boy sighed, and then there was silence till he spoke again. "Will the black fellows come back soon?" he said, as he thought of the idea he had had about keeping them off.
He turned to his fellow, who examined the wounded ear, the lobe of which was split. Then the injury was pinched together for a few moments, a little grass bag was produced from somewhere, and a pinch of clay-dust applied to the wound. This done, Jackum grinned again. "Big Dan there," he whispered. "But the doctor?" whispered Carey, excitedly.
Starting once more, Jackum suddenly caught sight of traces on the ground which made him begin to proceed cautiously, his companions closing up, club, spear, or boomerang in hand, and then all at once there was a rush and a spring, then another, and a couple of little animals bounded away, kangaroo fashion, in a series of leaps through the open, park-like forest, till as they were crossing a widish patch Carey saw the use of the boomerang, one of which weapons skimmed after the retreating animals, struck it, and knocked it over, to lie kicking, till one of the men ran swiftly up and put it out of its misery with one blow of his club.
"All gone 'way," he said, rather solemnly, as if disappointed at not being able to join the banquet. "Jackum want eat." "Yes, of course. Come along. Here, Bob, what can you give him to eat?" The black's eyes sparkled, as he turned eagerly to Bostock. "What yer like, Sooty?" said the latter. "Bob gib ticky-ticky; Pick Dilly. Much cake." "Look ye here," said the old sailor. "You love damper?" "Iss.
The old sailor was right, for directly after they were seen carrying the carefully skinned and cleaned serpent to the side, where they lowered it into the boat, into which they crowded till it was full, four of them perching on the outrigger. Then with a loud shout the heavily-laden canoe was pushed off, the paddles began to splash, and Jackum came back.
Jackum used his hands, but stopped short directly after to point. "Tickum, tickum. Mumkull," he cried, and Carey made out the spear-shaft performing some strange gyrations some twenty yards away, before it once more disappeared. As Carey owned afterwards to the doctor and Bostock, he still felt a little white, and his heart was beating heavily.
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