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Bunyip Land

CHAPTER SIX
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I say, Joe, I brought Gyp," he added with a smile that made his face look quite pleasant.
"What! your dog ?" I cried.
"Yes; he's all snug down below, and he hasn't made a sound.

He don't like it, but if I tell him to do a thing he knows he's obliged to do it." "I say, I wonder what the captain will say if he knows you've got a dog on board ?" "I sha'n't tell him, and if he don't find it out I shall pay him for Gyp's passage just the same as I shall pay him for mine.

I've got lots of money, and I hid on board to save trouble.

I ain't a cheat." "No, I never thought you were, Jack," I said, for I had known him for some years, and once or twice I had been fishing with him, though we were never companions.

"But it's all nonsense about your going with us.
The doctor said this morning that the notion was absurd." "Let him mind his salts-and-senna and jollop," said Jack sharply.
"Who's he, I should like to know?
I knowed your father as much as he did.


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