Of course she could not speak a word of English, and was as fierce as a little wildcat.

I expect she got all right, after a bit.
"I didn't see the man, but I heard he was worn to a shadow, when he got back.

He must have had an awful time of it, in the bush.

What with hunger and thirst, and dodging the blacks, I don't know how he lived through it; but he looked contented and happy, in spite of his starvation, and they say it was wonderful to see how patient he was with the child.
"They got up a subscription, at Sydney, to send them both home.

I heard that the captain of the ship he went in said, when he came back the next voyage, that the child had taken to him, and had got civilized and like other children before they got to England." "Of course, such fellows as Cockeye and Fothergill are the exceptions, and not the rule," Mr.Blount said.