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Title: Queensland Cousins
Author: Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
Release Date: April 16, 2008 [EBook #25079]
Language: English
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QUEENSLAND COUSINS
[Illustration: It was the great native chief.]
QUEENSLAND
COUSINS
BY
E. L. HAVERFIELD
THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, LTD.
LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN AT
THE PRESS OF THE PUBLISHERS
_CONTENTS._
_I. Home_, 9
_II. Bob_, 22
_III. The Barefoot Visitor_, 39
_IV. A Night of Terror_, 49
_V. The First Shot_, 60
_VI. Bob's Verdict_, 69
_VII. Peter's Nightmare_, 80
_VIII. The Witch_, 91
_IX. A Riderless Horse_, 102
_X. A Voice from the Scrub_, 114
_XI. Black-fellows_, 124
_XII. The Secret of the Thicket_, 136
_XIII. A Great Surprise_, 148
_XIV. A Moonlight Disturbance_, 158
_XV. Who is in the Boat?_ 168
_XVI. What the Tide brought in_, 177
_XVII. Mother's Home_, 188
_XVIII. Peter makes a Diversion_, 201
_XIX. The Last Straw_, 212
_XX. Breaking the News_, 225
QUEENSLAND COUSINS.
CHAPTER I.
HOME.
"It has come, it has come, it has come! Oh, do be quick, father!"
The cry rang out lustily from three young voices, three eager heads
were thrust over the veranda railings. Below, on horseback, was a
big, brown-haired, brown-bearded man, who look
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