at Anzac; you have read of how many have died.

Anzac is the cope-stone of Imperialism. It is the grim expression of a
faith that is everlasting, of a love that shall endure the shocks of
years, and all the cunning devilry of such as the Barbarous Huns.
Hence this little book. It is an inspiration of the Dardanelles, where
I met many of our Australasian friends. It is not an official history.
I have, in my own way, endeavoured to picture what like these warring
Bohemians are. The cloak of fiction has here and there been wound
round temperamental things as well as around some glorious facts.

I hope I shall please all and offend none.

R. W. CAMPBELL, _Capt._

_October_, 1915.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1. A NOTABLE QUARTETTE
2. MELBOURNE VERSUS SYDNEY
3. THE LAND OF SIN
4. TREASURE TROVE
5. SYBIL, THE SQUATTER'S GIRL
6. THE WISDOM OF "K"
7. THE LANDING
8. "HELL-FIRE POST"
9. A BRAVE NEW ZEALANDER
10. VICTORY
11. WHAT LADY READERS LIKE

THE KANGAROO MARINES

CHAPTER I

A NOTABLE QUARTETTE

WANTED.--One Thousand cheerful toughs to enlist for the period of the
war in the Kangaroo Marines. Boosers, scrimshankers and loonies
barred. Gents with big waists and little hearts are warned off.
Sharpshooters on the wallaby, able to live on condensed air and boiled
snakes, are cordially invited. No parson's references are required.
Jackaroos, cattlemen, rouseabouts, shearers--every sort of handy-man
welcome. Pay, 6s. per day, and all the "jewels" in the Sultan's harem.

This is to be the crack corps of the Australian Force.

Hurry up and join.

(_Signed_) SAM KILLEM, _Lt. Col. Commanding_.

This alluring advertisement appeared on the front page of _The
Bushmen's Weekly_, a Sydney production, renowned for its wit and
originality. It was designed to tickle the sides of the horny-handed
men of the Bush, and to rope in the best of them. For these men of the
Never-Never Land are soldiers born and heroes in the toughest job.
They think deep and know the way of things. If they appear wild and
uncouth, they carry beneath that scrubby exterior the will of men and
the open heart of the child.

Moreover, they love the Motherland. This was specially true of the
four who tenanted a little shanty on the sheep station of "Old Graham,"
one of the wealthiest men in Australia. The quartette consisted of
Bill Buster, a typical Cornstalk with a nut-brown face, twinkling eyes
and