You can go if you like, though." This was a long speech for Jack Penny, who rubbed one of his ears in an ill-used way.
"Jimmy, black fellow 'fraid um bunyip; oh, yes!" said my follower; "but Jimmy no run away." "We shall not leave you alone, Penny," said the doctor, smiling.

"It would not be fair." So we stayed with him till day broke, and not having heard the slightest sound to intimate the neighbourhood of danger, and the dog lying quite still and content by his master, the doctor and I went to get a couple of hours' rest, just as the forest glades were beginning to echo with the screaming of birds of the parrot family, Jimmy bending over me and poking me with the butt end of his spear, almost directly, so it seemed to me, that I had lain down.
"Jimmy hungry," he said; "gimmy damper--brackfass.

Come long." "Did you hear the bunyip any more, Jimmy ?" I said, yawning.
"No.

Bunyip go sleep all a morning--all a day! Come a night.
How-wow!" He put his head on one side and gave so marvellous an imitation of the terrible cries I had heard during the night that I felt sure he must know the creature.
"What is it makes that noise, Jimmy ?" I said eagerly.
"Bunyip--big ugly fellow bunyip!" he exclaimed; and I felt so cross and annoyed with his eternal bunyip that I was ready to kick him; but I refrained, and went instead to the fire, where the doctor was waiting breakfast, after sending Jimmy to wake me up..