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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Why, those must be fire-flies," cried Reggy. "They are far too red and bright for that," whispered Paul; "don't speak above your breath. The lights come from the fire-sticks carried by natives, they always move about with them by night, and they are gathering round the water-hole.
"Mr Berrington is a verra gude gentleman, but he kens little about farm-work as yet, and I canna trust him," he observed. The captain took the most trustworthy of the men, thus making up his party to four. Paul, Harry, and Reggy accompanied Mr Hayward, and with the addition of Bendigo, who was likely to prove very useful, their party was complete.
At last they caught sight of a large brown bird with a big beak, sitting on a bough and nodding its head, and then laughing away with all its might. They could now no longer have any doubt whence the sound proceeded. Just then Harry, arriving from the hut, came into the room. "Come along, Harry," cried Reggy, "you said there would be time for a bathe before breakfast." "I'm your man," said Harry.
Paul, having bid farewell to his family, accompanied by Harry and Reggy, who were going to see him a few miles on the way, rode after the drays, which had started at daybreak that morning. The two boys returned towards evening, reporting all well. Paul was much missed; even Hector complained that he had not now a companion to talk to.
"But how are we to get back our horses?" asked Reggy; "and if we do not get them back, how are we to return home?" Bendigo said that he hoped to recover them, as they were not very far off. "If he does not, we must make up our minds to trudge back on foot. It will be a long journey, but he will not let us want for food," said Harry.
"It is a pity to lose these," said Harry, clapping them into the pockets of his jacket good capacious ones, as every bushman's should be. There was, besides, a pot of yams, by this time completely cooked. "Here, Reggy, stow some of these away," he cried out.
Bruce understood his duty, and without hesitation accompanied Mr Hayward; while Harry and Reggy, taking charge of the children, made their way back to Stratton with the rest of the party, the younger ones every now and then sobbing as they thought of their carelessness in losing sight of Effie and Albert.
"The water is rushing through the hollow like a mill-sluice!" he exclaimed; "we shall lose our lives if we attempt to cross." Harry and Reggy followed him out. He spoke too truly.
Harry and Reggy, with Mr Hayward, who were leading, now came up, but the kangaroo observing one side of the water-hole unguarded, suddenly, with a few bounds, reached it and made off before the dogs could get round to seize him. Away he went, bounding on as before towards the scrub in which he might have hoped to obtain shelter.
The kangaroo appeared to move but slowly, and to be making his long bounds with deliberation. "We shall be up to him in three minutes!" cried Reggy. "Not so fast as that, by a long way," answered Harry; "he is now going at double the speed you suppose, and will soon increase it." Harry was right.
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