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Bunyip Land

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
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Ever so better.

All rightums.

Tank you better," yelled the black, and he sheltered himself again behind my back.
"Doctor," I said, surprised and angry at what seemed horrible cruelty.
"Give him some more ?" he said laughing.

"Of course I will," and he tried to reach round me, but I caught hold of the cane, and Jimmy took advantage of the cessation of hostilities for a moment to run for some distance and then climb up a tree, in one of the higher branches of which he settled himself like a monkey, and sat rubbing himself and looking down at the danger from which he had escaped.
"There, Joe," said the doctor, laughing; "it has made me hot.

That's as good a cure as the Queen's physician could have made." "How could you be so brutal to the poor wretch ?" I said indignantly.
"Brutal! Ha! ha! ha! My indignant young hero!" he cried.


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