The Kangaroo Hunters, Or, Adventures in the BushG. Routledge, 1859 - 444 pages |
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... fellow to take with us , " said Hugh . " I know papa will consent , for he could always trust Jack to find the birds ' nests , and bring away the right eggs , as well as if he had gone himself . Then he is such an ingenious , clever fellow ...
... fellow to take with us , " said Hugh . " I know papa will consent , for he could always trust Jack to find the birds ' nests , and bring away the right eggs , as well as if he had gone himself . Then he is such an ingenious , clever fellow ...
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... fellow said I had better lead my daughter in a string . " Ruth giggled hysterically at the recital of her adventure , and when Margaret said to her gravely , - " You behaved very improperly , Ruth , why did you leave your kind friend ...
... fellow said I had better lead my daughter in a string . " Ruth giggled hysterically at the recital of her adventure , and when Margaret said to her gravely , - " You behaved very improperly , Ruth , why did you leave your kind friend ...
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... fellow well with my stick . Then Bill got up and ran off , but I was fain to stop , and give t ' keeper a hiding ; but he roared out so loud that two more chaps 36 THE GOLDEN FAIRY . came up , and first D 2 THE TWO CONVICTS. ...
... fellow well with my stick . Then Bill got up and ran off , but I was fain to stop , and give t ' keeper a hiding ; but he roared out so loud that two more chaps 36 THE GOLDEN FAIRY . came up , and first D 2 THE TWO CONVICTS. ...
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... fellows in their yellow convict dress brought up for Markham to choose a crew from , for all his own men had deserted to go to the diggings . And we both agree that he must have picked out the most villanous - looking of the lot . Now ...
... fellows in their yellow convict dress brought up for Markham to choose a crew from , for all his own men had deserted to go to the diggings . And we both agree that he must have picked out the most villanous - looking of the lot . Now ...
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... fellows amuse themselves with sending her on some foolish errand , and getting her into mischief . I had near had a fight with that big brute , the mate , for pitching her over a hencoop ; but Wilkins , that little sharp fellow at the ...
... fellows amuse themselves with sending her on some foolish errand , and getting her into mischief . I had near had a fight with that big brute , the mate , for pitching her over a hencoop ; but Wilkins , that little sharp fellow at the ...
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Page 100 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 114 - His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay.
Page 21 - Up and down ! up and down ! From the base of the wave to the billow's crown, And amidst the flashing and feathery foam, The stormy petrel finds a home. A home ! if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea...
Page 286 - O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Page 22 - It ate the food it ne'er had eat, And round and round it flew. The ice did split with a thunder-fit; The helmsman steered us through! And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners
Page 217 - His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his eyry, with loud screams Chiding his mate back to her nest; but she Lies dying, with the arrow in her side, In some far stony gorge out of his ken, A heap of fluttering feathers — never more Shall the lake glass her, flying over it...
Page 139 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round, With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground, Making it all one emerald : how profound The gulf! and how the giant element From rock to rock leaps with delirious bound, Crushing the cliffs, which, downward worn and rent With his fierce footsteps, yield in chasms a fearful vent...
Page 217 - Far off; — anon her mate comes winging back From hunting, and a great way off descries His huddling young left sole; at that, he checks His pinion, and with short uneasy sweeps Circles above his eyry, with loud screams...
Page 234 - Glory ye in his holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD.
Page 345 - To look on the creation with an eye of interest and feeling must be ever acceptable to the Creator. To trace out the several properties of his works, and to study with diligence and humility their laws, their uses and operations, is an employment worthy the immortal mind of man ; since it is one of those studies which we may reasonably hope will survive beyond tho grave—when we shall no longer see through a " glass darkly," what wonders of creation spiritual as well as material, may unfold themselves...