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Bunyip Land

by George Manville FENN (1831 - 1909)

How We Found Jack Penny.

Joe Carstairs is a boy on a farm in Australia. His father is a keen naturalist who, some years before had set off for New Guinea in search of specimens, and never been heard of again. Joe is old enough to mount a search expedition, and takes with him a local doctor and an aboriginal worker on his farm. They find themselves joined by a stowaway, Jimmy, whose father is a squatter (farmer) nearby, together with his dog, Gyp. This team sets off, arrive in New Guinea, hire some more porters, and travel guided by some sixth sense straight to where Mr. Carstairs has been kept a prisoner, along with another Englishman, whose mind has gone, under the stress of his imprisonment. There are the usual close shaves and tense moments, but finally they achieve their end, and return home triumphantly:

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Listen next episodes of Bunyip Land:
How A Strange Visitor Came To Camp. , How High The Water Came. , How I Found That I Had A Fellow-Prisoner , How I Got Into Serious Difficulties. , How I Had A Visitor In The Night. , How I Heard English Spoken Here. , How I Must Wind Up The Story. , How I Nearly Had An Arrow To Drink. , How I Nearly Made A Terrible Mistake. , How I Ran From The Whitebird Catchers. , How I Talked With My New Friend. , How I Was Disposed To Find Fault With My Best Friend. , How I Was Not Made Into Pie. , How Jack Penny Fired A Straight Shot. , How Jack Penny Put his Foot In A Trap. , How Jack Penny Was Not Satisfied With Himself. , How Jack Penny Was Persecuted By Pigs , How Jimmy And I Were Hunted Like Beasts. , How Jimmy Cried “Cooee!” And Why He Called. , How Jimmy Heard The Bunyip Speak, And It All Proved To Be “Big ’Tuff. , How Jimmy Turned Up A Trump , How Jimmy Was Frightened By The Bunyip. , How Jimmy Was Taken Very Bad Indeed. , How The Doctor Found A Patient Ready To His Hand. , How The Doctor Gave Jimmy His Physics. , How The Doctor Said “Thank You” In A Very Quiet Way , How The Doctor Took Me In Hand , How Watch Was Kept By Night. , How We Heard A Black Discussion And Did Not Understand. , How We Made Further Plans. , How We Passed Through A Great Peril. , How We Retreated And Were Caught In A Tropic Storm. , How We Saw Strange Things. , How We Stopped The Blackbird Catchers. , How We Took A Last Look Round, And Found It Was Time To Go. , How We Were Besieged, And I Thought Of Birnam Wood , We Await Our Fate.