"I had to come and look at Bowman's broken arm, so I came on here to beg a bit of dinner." "I'm so glad!" I said: for Jimmy, the half-wild black, was my only companion, there being no boys within miles of our run; "stop a week and have some fishing." "And what's to become of my patients ?" "You haven't got any," I said.

"You told me so last time." "True, O King Joseph! I've come to the wrong place; you don't want many doctors in Australia.

Why, nurse, how this fellow grows!" "I wish he'd grow good," cried the old lady.

"He's always doing something to worry away his poor ma's and my life." "Why, what's the matter now, nurse ?" "Matter, sir! Why, he's took it into his head to go looking for his poor dear dead-and-gone pa.

Do, do please tell him he mustn't think of such things." "Why, Joe!" cried the doctor, turning sharply round to me, and ceasing to beat his high boots with his long-thonged whip.
"I don't care what anybody says," I cried, stamping my foot.