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Bunyip Land Chapter 1 - How I Made My Plans and They Were Endorsed · The George Manville Fenn Library

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Bunyap Bland. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: reading by Lucy Burgoyne Bunyip Bland by George Manville Fenn.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter one, How I made my plans and they were endorsed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Master Joseph, do or done? Now? Do? I'm sure your
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  Speaker 1: poor dear eyes will go afore you're forty, and think
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  Speaker 1: of that bother? What say, my dear, don't bother? You're
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  Speaker 1: always running your finger over that map thing, My dear,
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  Speaker 1: I can't bear to see it. Nurse Brown looked over
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  Speaker 1: the top of her spectacles at me and shook her
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  Speaker 1: head while I bent lower over the map. Then the
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  Speaker 1: old lady sighed and went on making cottage windows all
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  Speaker 1: over my worsted stockings, giving vent to comments all the time.
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  Speaker 1: For the old lady had been servant to my grandmother
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  Speaker 1: and had fired her young mistress when she married, nursing
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  Speaker 1: me when I was bored, and treating me as a
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  Speaker 1: baby ever since. In fact, she had grown into an
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  Speaker 1: institution at home, moving when we moved, and doing pretty
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  Speaker 1: well as she liked in what she called our house. Bang,
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  Speaker 1: bless the boy. Don't bang the table like that, she cried,
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  Speaker 1: How you made me jump? It's of no use talking, Nurse,
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  Speaker 1: I cried. I mean to go. Go, she said, go where?
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  Speaker 1: Go and find my poor dear father. I cried, Why, Nurse,
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  Speaker 1: am I to sit down quietly at home here when
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  Speaker 1: perhaps my poor father is waiting for me to come
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  Speaker 1: to his help. Oh, hush, my dearie, don't talk like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid he's dead and gone. He isn't, Nurse, I
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  Speaker 1: cried fiercely. He's a prisoner somewhere among those new Guinea savages,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean to find him and bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: Nurse Brown thrust her needle into the big round ball
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  Speaker 1: of worsted and held it up as if for me
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  Speaker 1: to see. Then she took off her glasses, with the
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  Speaker 1: left hand in her stocking, and shaking her head, she exclaimed, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you bad boy. Wasn't it enough for your father to
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  Speaker 1: go mad after his botanicy and want to go collecting
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  Speaker 1: furren buttercups and daisies to break your mother's heart that
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  Speaker 1: you must catch his complaint and want to go too.
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  Speaker 1: My father isn't mad, I said. Your father was mad,
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  Speaker 1: retorted Nurse Brown. And I was surprised at him. What
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  Speaker 1: did he ever get by going wandering about collecting his
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  Speaker 1: dry awkwardses and rubbish and sending him off to England? Fame,
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  Speaker 1: I cried, and honor, fame and honor never bought potatoes,
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  Speaker 1: said Nurse Why four different plants were named after him? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: stuff and rubbish? Boy, what's the good of that? When
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  Speaker 1: a man gets lost and starves to death in the
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  Speaker 1: foreign wilds. My father was too clever a man to
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  Speaker 1: get lost or to starve in the wilds, I said proudly.
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  Speaker 1: The savages have made him a prisoner, and I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to find him and bring him back. I you've god
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  Speaker 1: wandering about with that dirty black till you quite gone
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  Speaker 1: into his ways. Jimmy isn't dirty, I said, And he
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  Speaker 1: can't help being black any more than you can being white.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder at a well brought up young gent like you,
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  Speaker 1: bemeaning yourself to associate with such a low creature, Master Joseph.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy's a native gentleman, Nurse I said. Gentlemen indeed, cried
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  Speaker 1: the old lady, as goes about without a bit of
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  Speaker 1: decent clothes to his back. So did Adam Nursey, I said, laughing,
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  Speaker 1: Master Joseph, I won't sit here and listen to you
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  Speaker 1: if you talk like that, cried the old lady, a
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  Speaker 1: comparing that black savage to Adam. You ought to be
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  Speaker 1: ashamed of yourself. It all comes of living in this
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  Speaker 1: horrible place. I wish we were back at Putney. Hang Putney,
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  Speaker 1: I cried Putney. Indeed, where you couldn't go half a
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  Speaker 1: yard off a road without trespassing, own nurse. You can't
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  Speaker 1: understand it, I cried enthusiastically. If you were to get
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  Speaker 1: up in the dark one morning and go with Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: Me go with Jimmy, cried the old lady with a snort,
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  Speaker 1: and get right out towards the mountain and see the
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  Speaker 1: sunrise and the parrots in flocks, and the fish glancing
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  Speaker 1: like arrows down the silver river. There's just how your
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  Speaker 1: poor dear pa used to talk and nearly broke your
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  Speaker 1: poor mar's heart. No he didn't, he was too fond
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  Speaker 1: of her, I said. Only he felt it his duty
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  Speaker 1: to continue his researches, the same that brought him out here.
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  Speaker 1: And oh I shall find him and bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: Don't don't. There's a good boy. Don't talk to me
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  Speaker 1: like that. You're sixteen now and you ought to know better.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to know any better than that, Nurse.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's my duty to go, and I shall go.
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  Speaker 1: You'll kill your poor mar sir. No I shan't, I said.
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  Speaker 1: She won't like my going at first, because it will
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  Speaker 1: seem lonely for her out here, but she'll be as
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  Speaker 1: pleased as can be afterwards. Look here, my mother, say, ma,
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  Speaker 1: Master Joe, dear dorwey, please, it's so much more genteel stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's frenchy mother's old English mother. Don't believe father's dead,
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  Speaker 1: does she? Well, no, my dear, she's as obstinate as
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  Speaker 1: you are about that. And she's right. Why he's only
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  Speaker 1: been away four years and that isn't so very long
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  Speaker 1: in a country where you have to cut every step
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  Speaker 1: of the way. Coo coo eee ooo ooo ooo ooo
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  Speaker 1: why coo weie cooie, I echoed back, and nurse held
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  Speaker 1: her hands to her ears. Now don't you go to him,
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  Speaker 1: Master Joseph, Now please don't, said the old lady. Mass
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  Speaker 1: Joe high mass Joe Jimmy, fine wallaby chick thus in
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  Speaker 1: big hole, big tree. Just then my first lieutenant and
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  Speaker 1: Nurse Brown's great object of dislike, Jimmy thrusty, shiny black
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  Speaker 1: face and curly head in at the door, go away,
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  Speaker 1: Sir cried, Nurse hip fits come, catch fits me and
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  Speaker 1: towsend all up a creek. Jimmy, go away. He stood,
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  Speaker 1: grinning and nodding with his hands in the pocket holes
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  Speaker 1: of his only garment, a pair of trousers with legs
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  Speaker 1: cut off to about mid thigh. If you don't take
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  Speaker 1: that nasty black fellow away, Master Joseph, I shall be
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  Speaker 1: obliged to complain to your poor mark, said Nurse get out.
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  Speaker 1: I said, Jimmy won't hurt you. And though it don't
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  Speaker 1: show he's as clean as a new pin, he isn't clean.
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  Speaker 1: He can't be dear, How can any one be clean
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  Speaker 1: who don't wear clothes, Master Joseph, And look at his toes.
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  Speaker 1: Nurse Brown always fell foul of Jimmy's toes. They fidgeted her,
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  Speaker 1: for they were never still. In fact, Jimmy's toes, which
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  Speaker 1: had never probed the recess of a pair of boots,
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  Speaker 1: were more like fingers. And thumps, and had a way
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  Speaker 1: of twiddling about when he was supposed to be standing still,
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  Speaker 1: Stand perfectly still, he never did. And these toes belonged
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  Speaker 1: to feat than in climbing. He could use like hands.
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  Speaker 1: More than once I've seen him pist off the ground
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  Speaker 1: just like a monkey, nurse said, Or stand talking to
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  Speaker 1: anyone and keep his attention while he helped himself to
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  Speaker 1: something he wanted with his feet. There be off, Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: I said, for I wanted to stop indoors. Come catch this? No,
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  Speaker 1: not to day? Hi wa wah what? Jimmy threw himself
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  Speaker 1: into an attitude, snatching a small hatchet from the waistband
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  Speaker 1: of his trousers and made believe to climb a tree,
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  Speaker 1: chop a hole larger, and draw out an animal which
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  Speaker 1: he seemed to be swinging round by its tail. No,
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  Speaker 1: not today, Jimmy, I cried. Sleep, Sleep, said Jimmy, imitating
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  Speaker 1: a kangaroo. By giving a couple of hops into the baranda,
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  Speaker 1: where he chose a sunny place well haunted by flies,
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  Speaker 1: curled up and went to sleep. Good morning, cried a
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  Speaker 1: hearty voice, and I ran out to welcome our neighbor,
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  Speaker 1: the doctor whose horses hoofs had not been heard, and
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  Speaker 1: who was now fastening the rein to the hook in
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  Speaker 1: one of the veranda posts. Well, doe, he said, as
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  Speaker 1: I shook hands and looked up admiringly in his fole,
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  Speaker 1: well bearded face. Well doctor, I'm so glad you've come.
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  Speaker 1: Walk in Ah, nurse, he cried, how well you look? Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: but I am glad you'll come. She said. I want
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  Speaker 1: you to look at Master Joseph's I did look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't he feverish or something? Sir? He's that restless as
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  Speaker 1: never was so, and he's growing, cried the doctor. How's mamma.
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  Speaker 1: Oh she's pretty well, I said, gone to Lye. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: said the doctor. I had to come and look at
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  Speaker 1: Bauman's broken arm, so I came on here to beg
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  Speaker 1: a bit of dinner. I'm so glad, I said, for
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy the half while Black was my only companion, there
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  Speaker 1: being no boys within miles of our run stop a
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  Speaker 1: week and have some fishing. And what's to become of
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  Speaker 1: my patience? You haven't got any, I said, you told
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  Speaker 1: me so last time. True o, King Joseph, I've come
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  Speaker 1: to the wrong place. You don't want many doctors in Australia. Why, nurse,
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  Speaker 1: how this fellow grows? I wish he'd grow good, cried
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  Speaker 1: the old lady. He's always doing something to worry away
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  Speaker 1: his poor mars and my life. Why what's the matter now, nurse?
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  Speaker 1: Matter sir? Why he's took it into his head to
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  Speaker 1: go looking for his poor dear dare to go on?
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  Speaker 1: Par do? Do please tell him he mustn't think of
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  Speaker 1: such things? Why, Joe, cried the doctor, turning sharply round
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  Speaker 1: to me and ceasing to beat his high boots with
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  Speaker 1: his long thong whip. I don't care what anybody says,
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  Speaker 1: I cried, stamping my foot. I've made up my mind
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  Speaker 1: and mean to go to New Guinea to find my
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  Speaker 1: father there. Doctor, did you ever hear any one so
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  Speaker 1: wickedly obstinate before? Cried Nurse. Isn't it shocking? And his
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  Speaker 1: ma that delicate and worried, living all alone like here
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  Speaker 1: out in these strange parts, and have him as ought
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  Speaker 1: to be a comfort to her doing nothing, but hankerer
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  Speaker 1: after running away to find him, as he's dead and gone.
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  Speaker 1: He's not dead, Nurse, He's only gone, I cried, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean to find him, as sure as I live
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  Speaker 1: there that I will there? Doctor. Did you ever hear
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  Speaker 1: such a boy? Cried nurse, never said the doctor. Why Joe,
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  Speaker 1: my boy, he cried, as I stood shrinking from him,
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  Speaker 1: ready to defend myself from his remonstrances. Your ideas do
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  Speaker 1: you credit? I didn't think you had it in you.
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  Speaker 1: Then you don't think it is wrong with me, doctor,
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  Speaker 1: I said, catching his hand. No, my boy, I do not,
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  Speaker 1: he said gravely. But it is a task for strong
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  Speaker 1: and earnest men. But I am strong, I said, And
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not a man, I'm in real earnest. I
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  Speaker 1: can see that, my lad, said the doctor, with his
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  Speaker 1: brown forehead filling with thoughtful wrinkles. But have you counted
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  Speaker 1: the cost cost? I said? No, I should get a
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  Speaker 1: passage in a coaster and walk all the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the way. I'm in. Cost of energy, the risks, the
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  Speaker 1: arduous labors, Oh yes, I said, And I sha'n't mind.
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  Speaker 1: Father would have done the same if I was lost,
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  Speaker 1: of course he would, my lad. But would you go alone?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, I replied, I should take a guide. Ah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: a good guide and companion. There, Master Joseph, you here,
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  Speaker 1: said nurse, doctor grad means that sarcastical. No, I do not, nurse,
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  Speaker 1: said the doctor quietly, for I think it a very
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  Speaker 1: brave and noble resolve on the part of our young friend. Doctor.
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  Speaker 1: It has troubled me this year past that no other
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  Speaker 1: that has been made to find the professor, who I
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  Speaker 1: have no doubt is somewhere in the interior of the island,
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  Speaker 1: and I have been for some time making plans to
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  Speaker 1: go after him myself. Nurse Brown's stew dropped and she
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  Speaker 1: stared in speechless amazement. Hooray, doctor, I cried, and I
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  Speaker 1: say hooray too. Joe, he cried, I'll go with you,
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  Speaker 1: my lad, and we'll bring him back with God's help,
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  Speaker 1: safe and sound. The shout I gave woke Jimmy. He
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  Speaker 1: sprang to his feet, dragged a boomerang from his waistband,
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  Speaker 1: and dashed to the door to throw it at somebody,
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  Speaker 1: and then stopped. You'll break his mother's heart, doctor, sob Nurse. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: if she was to hear what you've said, I did
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  Speaker 1: hear every word, said my mother, entering from the next
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  Speaker 1: room and looking very white there there, cried Nurse, you
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  Speaker 1: wicked boy, see what you've done, mother, I cried as
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  Speaker 1: I ran to her and caught her, poor little, light,
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  Speaker 1: delicate thing that she was in my arms. My boy,
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  Speaker 1: she whispered back as she clung to me. I must go.
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  Speaker 1: I will find him. I'm sure he is not dead,
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  Speaker 1: and so am I. She cried, with her eyes lighting
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  Speaker 1: up and a couple of red spots appearing in her cheeks.
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  Speaker 1: I could not feel as I do if he were dead.
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  Speaker 1: Here she broke down and began to sob, while I,
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  Speaker 1: with old nurse's eyes glaring at me, began to feel
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  Speaker 1: as if I had done some horribly wicked act, and
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  Speaker 1: that nothing was left for me to do but try
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  Speaker 1: to soothe her, whose heart I seemed were broken. Oh, mother,
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  Speaker 1: dear mother, I whispered, with my lips close to her,
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  Speaker 1: little pink ear. I don't want to give you pain,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel as if I must. I must go.
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  Speaker 1: To my utter astonishment, she laid her hands upon my temples,
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  Speaker 1: thrust me from her, and gazed impassionately in my great
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  Speaker 1: sun brown face. She bent forward, kissed me and said, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you've grown a great fellow. Now go, yes, you must go.
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  Speaker 1: God will help you and bring you both safely back oh, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: came from the brander three hideous yells, indicative of the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Jimmy, the half wild black, who had attached
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  Speaker 1: himself to me ever since the day I had met him,
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  Speaker 1: spear arm and bearing that as his only garment over
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  Speaker 1: the shoulder, and I shared with him the bread and
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  Speaker 1: mutton I had taken from my expedition, was in a
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  Speaker 1: state of the utmost grief. In fact, he had thrown
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  Speaker 1: himself down on the sand and was wallowing and twisting
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  Speaker 1: himself about, beating up the dust with his boomerang, and
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  Speaker 1: generally exciting poor old nurse's disgust. Mother, I cried, and
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  Speaker 1: making an effort, she stood up, erect and proud. Mister Grant,
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  Speaker 1: she exclaimed, Do you mean what you say? Most decidedly,
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  Speaker 1: my dear madam, said the doctor. I should be unworthy
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  Speaker 1: of the Professor's friendship and the charge he gave me
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  Speaker 1: to watch over you in his absence if I did
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  Speaker 1: not go but your practice, what is that trifling as
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  Speaker 1: it is to going to the help of him who
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  Speaker 1: gave me his when I came out to the colony
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  Speaker 1: a poor and friendless man. Thank you, doctor, she said,
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  Speaker 1: laying her hand in his and I go the more willingly,
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  Speaker 1: he said, smiling, because I know it will be the
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  Speaker 1: best prescription for your case. It will bring you back
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  Speaker 1: your health. But doctor, don't say another word, he cried, Why,
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  Speaker 1: my dear missus carstairs. It is five years since I
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  Speaker 1: have had anything even approaching a holiday. This will be
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  Speaker 1: a splendid opportunity. And I can take care of Joe here,
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  Speaker 1: and he can take care of me. That I will
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  Speaker 1: if I can, I cried. I know you will, Joe,
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  Speaker 1: he said, and will bring back the professor with all
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  Speaker 1: his collection of new plants for that London firm, on
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  Speaker 1: condition that something fresh with a big red and yellow
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  Speaker 1: blossom is named after me. Lay the scarlet Grantie or
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  Speaker 1: the yellow Unlucky in honor of my non success. You're
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  Speaker 1: never going to let him start, miss Eleanor, cried nurse.
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  Speaker 1: Would you have me stand between my son and his duty?
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  Speaker 1: Nurse cried my mother, flushing. Dearie me, no, sighed the
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  Speaker 1: old lady. Only it do seem such a wild goose chase.
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  Speaker 1: There'll be no one to take care of us, and
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  Speaker 1: that dreadful black Jimmy nurse always said his name with
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  Speaker 1: a sort of disrelish. We'll be hanging about here all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Eyasa, dat's him. Jimmy, Jimmy here, Jimmy go Hi, whopper, whopper,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy go too nonsense, Jimmy, I said, I'm going to Newgi.
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  Speaker 1: Need to seek my father is high. Whop a whopper.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy going to look for his father. Why you said
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  Speaker 1: he was dead, I cried, Isaac. Jimmy fadther dead, little
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  Speaker 1: pickaninny boy, Jimmy go look for him, find him? There
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  Speaker 1: be quiet, I said, for the black was indulging in
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  Speaker 1: a kind of war dance. You don't understand. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: across the sea to find my father. Dad him. Jimmy,
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  Speaker 1: want to go cross thee find him? Father? Bag? I
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  Speaker 1: won't go there long time. Why you never heard of
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  Speaker 1: the place before, I said, no, never heard him? Fore?
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  Speaker 1: Want to go long time? Jimmy go too? Why what for?
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  Speaker 1: I said? Hunt walloughby, catch fists kill black fellow, take care?
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  Speaker 1: Must Joe find him father? Hi, Whop a whopper. He
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  Speaker 1: would be very useful to us, Joe said the doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and I should like to take him, I said, eagerly.
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  Speaker 1: I Jimmy go, cried the black who contrived, in spite
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  Speaker 1: of his bad management of our language, to understand nearly
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  Speaker 1: everything that was said, and who was keenly watching us
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  Speaker 1: all in turn, he would be just the fellow to take,
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  Speaker 1: said the doctor. Hih wop wop, Jimmy, just a fellow
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  Speaker 1: to take, Then he shall go, I said, and the
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  Speaker 1: black bounded nearly to the ceiling, making nurse utter a shriek.
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  Speaker 1: Whereupon he thrust his boomerang into his waistband and dragged
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  Speaker 1: a waddy from the back where it had hung down
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  Speaker 1: like a stumpy tail, and showing his white teeth in
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  Speaker 1: a savage grin, he began to caper about as if
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  Speaker 1: preparing to attack the old lady, till I caught him
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  Speaker 1: by the arm, and he crouched at my feet like
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  Speaker 1: a dog. Come along, he said, pointing out at the
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  Speaker 1: sun walk five six hour, all black dark, go sleep
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  Speaker 1: a morning, all in good time, Jimmy, I said, go
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  Speaker 1: out and wait. The black ran out and crouched down
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  Speaker 1: upon his heels in the verandah, evidently under the impression
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  Speaker 1: that we were about to start at once. But Europeans
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  Speaker 1: bound on an expedition once something besides a waddy, boomerang
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  Speaker 1: and spear, and with nurse shaking her head mournfully. The
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  Speaker 1: while my mother, the doctor and I held a council
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  Speaker 1: of war, which after a time was interrupted by a
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  Speaker 1: curious noise between a grunt and a groan, which proved
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  Speaker 1: to be from Jimmy's throat, for he was preparing himself
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  Speaker 1: through his journey by having a nap. End of chapter one,