[Bunyip Land by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBunyip Land CHAPTER FIFTEEN 5/9
"Your legs are right enough.
They only want flesh and muscle, and it's the same with your arms.
Wait a bit and it will all come, just as beards do when people grow to be men." "I sha'n't never have any beard," said Jack, dolefully; "my face is as smooth as a girl's!" "I daresay the doctor was only a little smooth soft baby once," I said; "and now see what he is." "Ah! ain't he a fine fellow ?" said Jack.
"I'm going to try and do as he does, and I want to have plenty of pluck; but no sooner do I get into a scrape than I turn cowardly, same as I did over that little humbug of a crocodile." "Don't talk nonsense, Jack!" I said. "'Tisn't nonsense! Why, if I'd had as much courage as a wallaby I should have kicked that thing out of the water; and all I did was to lay hold of a bough and holler murder!" "I didn't hear you," I said. "Well, _help_! then.
I know I hollered something." "And enough to make you.
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