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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