A
S T 0
Woman's
.
WALTER
Way.
The By-
E.
Joyce
with
and,
K Y
Pioneer
A.
WOOD,
of
Binder.
the
sullen
a
a
many
splash,
rider and sturdy swept good the shallow. Then towards headlong rifles they fell back, and the vicious his Kit turned cracked and spat. drawn head, and his rough hand was horse
Murray.
down
were
his
across
quickly
one
—
OUR
Three
eyes. of them
men
Ned.
Concluded.
His when watch.
down
shovel went he looked It
minutes
past of time.
earth,
flanked
Presently a shallow
wall
was The river below, and, even horses trained But with ease.
of
trench,
by
the
southern high end Then Kit rickety bridge. laid aside his shovel, placed his watch in a hollow before and quietly him, filled a brand-new -pipe. breast of the
rose
"
across
and he stake, of stores that
three
said thoughtfully, much but I schoolin', a 'bout heerd crack-up yarn holdin' men a agen' a bridge
reg'lar called
full
sized
the
chap
larncd
ez
how
I
onest
army. names,
1
laffed
you
bet,
I BEARINGS.
ROLLER
For
Send
DRAUGHT.
LIGHT
TESTED.
invented. I guess shootin' irons was three much but ain't now, good jest ten air an' ef one o' the pack feels o' the kinder in the regions wobbly he kin slide !" backbone
The sun an from
stirred.
down
beating clouded
sky,
sang to
itself
pitilessly and the river
"
Thar
they
come
!
Thet's
spatter.
PERTH.
STREET,
WILLIAM
all.
was
troopers,
W.
TATTERSALL'S
A.
(C/o
column—
CHARLES).
J.
107
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a
hesaid, Yes, thet's Hammerby's," an' we've I got to stop 'em, boys. mounts kinder reckon they've got noo Ef we by the pace they air ridin'. the off for half-an-hour, keep 'em
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Kit
upon
the
with
his
dont't
off,
go
1900.
up
the
ter
me-
in thet truth holdin' the
bin some men three S'pose bit
a
it
rubbed
we
hot. Thar's into yer purty seventeen teen o' us gone it
seven
—
of New
Bank
Reference,
Wales.
South
heerd. fust
ye've stretched,
Guess
?
I
chuck
hav
might
now.
sidelong
Appears
jest
Cap'en.
'bout yarn ell. bridge arter eh ? Sounds it,
1900.
3rd,
January
run
"so
sponge,
"
"
figures
him.
air safe with, a
waggons panted,
he
lurch,
December
at
run
The
reckon,"
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MONSTER BOULDER
powder-grimed
gun.
Perth.
Barrack-st.,
four
to meet out staggered unsteadily poised himself himself mound, propping
:
Ham-
Kit's
'
bridge
,
.
were
that
with
foaming
the rtibund, shad upon the glare, his eyes' from and gave one last look at the distant framehuts. A pony was at tethered Kar—
When Hammerby, the strode across rage, his the of corpses among the remnant rear of Garton's
stopped.
firing
ing
gate dim.
—
battered The bent hand of Kit's watch pointed to the halfpinchbeck hand hour. A dirty bandana yellow to a flut kerchief, knotted ramrod, tered over the the and barricade,
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merby's." Ned sprang
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was
and rippled boulders be low them. horse shouldered A restive one of its and comrades, up against there was a sudden and jang snorting of pannikins. Then a cluster ling the of black dots specked luminous the rim of the hill, and a on sky-line hoarse cry came from a dozen throats
minutes
ten
—
WORK.
the
among
all
—
man
harvest
rich
was
DURABLE. IN
RELIABLE
STRONG.
RICHD.
—
a
the
it
at
was
reputation
forgot
his
swum
till twenty-five of the bridge planking was with dead, and the quick piled had from behind the barricade volleys melted into a shiftless, unsteady
!
Not
have
—
'fore
happened
it
his
fifteen twenty the twelve-foot
and till
it
through
had
ain't
of gunshot,
out
could
onwards crawling hot over the towards plains. safety And Kit's watch ticked placidly
he
Boys," "
cursed and bit his lips. three fordable miles
Hammerby
no
was a
'em
style!"
twenty-five
There
six.
be said done," huskily. Thet's yer agen' boys.
" Well Give it
"
cumbrous
his
at
nearly
was
waste
viciously
seven
—
.
ter
is safe 'cording waggons Don't now bother reck'ning' 'bout How aif saying yer ?' give it 'em hot."
how
'
They
crouched
down,
He
Jest
BROTHERS'
CHRISTIAN
and
were
rifles
of
cheer
a
ing had
field-glass his hand and the unslung,
Then
air.
drifted A moment
through later
asunder, split belched up
dust hoofs,
and
irregulars
a
went
the column of white the beat of
of .Hammerby's eighty were down the thundering
hill. "
his his
Let 'em have teeth grinding
said Kit, boys," hard at the stem of
it,
ing,
This large,
Co
is
lege well-furnished
banks
on the situated dormitories, airy
beautifully classrooms,
of fine
i
the
Swan
River.
It
gymnasium,
and
extensive
has
play-ground. The
boarders
are
prepared
fr
younger are
Pupils Examinations.
the
under
care
Adelaide
of
Matron.
experienced
an
and
University
Government
passes
in
examinations competitive and at the University
public
seventeen
viz.,
ob
were
four
at
volley crackle
away
man
this
in his tunic.
an
eyes, Then
something
—
and twisted by a bullet was with blood. It locket that Kit had bought when his hopes were high.
bent smeared
fought Hello
man.
During 1897 twenty-one students— tained by the College Government Examinations.
dusty
-
V That blamed bit saved his said life," " him Pick lads, up, the village. into Curse a
Scholarship
his
cheap Lesbia
for
like 1
of
has
tinsel,
Hammerby. and him
hero,
a
steady
take If
1
there's
there
him ever
the
What's
1
?"
the It
was
merely the ford
waded
slim girl, and run in a
who had from be
her curling hair over streaming and a wet calico skirt, her shoulders, clinging awkardly to her supple limbs. men fell their The aside, obeying and she hand, captain's warning head upon her lifted Kit's drooping knee. hind,
pipe.
smoke A .line of fleecy abovp. the edge of the over beat back sluggishly The
the
him,
over
something
was
and
up,
smoke
under
that
PERTH.
faint echo the- morn
aside
tore
he flung
scanned
Hammerby's river.
bent
irregulars
their
and the
forward, pitching headlong, at the foot of the motionless The black bearded captain
COLLEGE, ofodd look of admiration
TERRACE,
GEORGE'S
ST.
clenching
eye guris, every watching the acrbss the of horsemen breast string the hill. Suddenly the troop halted,
fell
and lay mound.
my
darted and mound the stream.
puffs
answered by a waver from the guns of the
was
as
and the of squealing The flimsy fasten -Wounfied horses. the crashed asunder parapet ings af beneaith the thickening wedge of flesh, bulged and split, the woodwork
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air!"
moaned,
Kit,
Kit,"
Kit,
musn't you him give
'
for
she
Kit, die, air,
boys
—
die! more-
.
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