CHAPTER
I. [Jack Arrives in Australia]
II. [The Twin Lambs]
III. [Driving to Wandoo]
IV. [Wandoo]
V. [The Lambs Come Home]
VI. [In the Yard]
VII. [Out Back and Some Letters]
VIII. [Home for Christmas]
IX. [New Year's Eve]
X. [Shadows Before]
XI. [Blows]
XII. [The Great Passing]
XIII. [Tom and Jack Ride Together]
XIV. [Jamboree]
XV. [Uncle John Grant]
XVI. [On the Road]
XVII. [After Two Years]
XVIII. [The Governor's Dance]
XIX. [The Welcome at Wandoo]
XX. [The Last of Easu]
XXI. [Lost]
XXII. [The Find]
XXIII. [Gold]
XXIV. [The Offer to Mary]
XXV. [Trot, Trot Back Again]
XXVI. [The Rider on the Red Horse]
THE BOY IN THE BUSH
[CHAPTER I]
JACK ARRIVES IN AUSTRALIA
I
He stepped ashore, looking like a lamb. Far be it from me to say he was the lamb he looked. Else why should he have been sent out of England? But a good-looking boy he was, with dark blue eyes and the complexion of a girl and a bearing just a little too lamb-like to be convincing.
He stepped ashore in the newest of new colonies, glancing quickly around, but preserving his lamb-like quietness. Down came his elegant kit, and was dumped on the wharf: a kit that included a brand-new pigskin saddle and bridle, nailed up in a box straight from a smart shop in London. He kept his eye on that also, the tail of his well-bred eye.