ether
Australian.... It is told so simply, and yet so artistically, that even
the 'grown-ups' amongst us must enjoy it."

DAILY MAIL (Brisbane):--"A more fascinating study for Australian
children is hardly conceivable, and it endows the numerous bush animals
with human speech, and reproduces a variety of amusing conversations
between them and Dot, the little heroine of the book.... Adults may read
it with pleasure."

FREEMAN'S JOURNAL (Sydney):--"Miss Pedley brings much of graceful fancy
and happy descriptive faculty to her narrative of 'Dot and the
Kangaroo.'... The volume furnishes excellent reading for young folk."

Obtainable in Great Britain from The British Australasian Book-store,
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_Price 6s._

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DOT AND THE KANGAROO

[Illustration: THE PLATYPUS SINGS OF ANTEDILUVIAN DAYS]

DOT AND THE KANGAROO

BY

ETHEL C. PEDLEY

_With 19 Illustrations by Frank P. Mahony_

AUSTRALIA:
ANGUS & ROBERTSON LTD.
89 CASTLEREAGH STREET, SYDNEY
1920

Printed by W. C. Penfold & Co. Ltd.
88 Pitt Street, Sydney, Australia

Obtainable in Great Britain from The British Australasian Book-store,
51 High Holborn, London, W.C. 1., and from all Booksellers; and
(_wholesale only_) from The Australian Book Company, 16 Farringdon
Avenue, London, E.C. 4.

TO THE
CHILDREN OF AUSTRALIA
IN THE HOPE OF ENLISTING THEIR SYMPATHIES
FOR THE MANY
BEAUTIFUL, AMIABLE, AND FROLICSOME CREATURES
OF THEIR FAIR LAND,
WHOSE EXTINCTION, THROUGH RUTHLESS DESTRUCTION,
IS BEING SURELY ACCOMPLISHED

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

THE PLATYPUS SINGS OF ANTEDILUVIAN DAYS _frontispiece_
THE KANGAROO FINDS DOT 2
THE FIGHT BETWEEN THE KOOKOOBURRA AND THE SNAKE 14
DOT AND THE KANGAROO ON THEIR WAY TO THE PLATYPUS 18
THE PREHISTORIC CREATURES OF THE SONG 22
DOT DANCES WITH THE NATIVE COMPANIONS 26
DOT, THE NATIVE BEAR, AND THE OPOSSUM 34
THE CORROBOREE