und.

"Bullet--right through the shoulder!" said the doctor in a short abrupt
manner; and as he spoke he rapidly tore up his handkerchief, and plugged
and bound the wound, supplementing the handkerchief with a long scarf
which he wore round the waist.

"Now, Ti-hi! Jimmy! help me carry him to the cave."

"Jimmy carry um all 'long right way; put um on Jimmy's back!" cried my
black companion; and this seeming to be no bad way of carrying the
wounded man in such a time of emergency, Jimmy stooped down,
exasperating me the while by grinning, as if it was good fun, till the
sufferer from our mistake was placed upon his back, when he exclaimed:

"Lot much heavy-heavy! Twice two sheep heavy. Clear de bush!"

We hastily drew the boughs aside, and Jimmy steadily descended the steep
slope, entered the rivulet, crossed, and then stopped for a moment
beneath the overhanging boughs before climbing to the cabin.

"Here, let me help you!" said the doctor, holding out his hand.

"Yes," said Jimmy, drawing his waddy and boomerang from his belt; "hold
um tight, um all in black fellow way."

Then, seizing the boughs, he balanced the wounded man carefully, and
drew himself steadily up step by step, exhibiting wonderful strength of
muscle, till he had climbed to the entrance of the cave, where he bent
down and crawled in on hands and knees, waiting till his burden was
removed from his back, and then getting up once more to look round
smiling.

"Jimmy carry lot o' men like that way!"

We laid the sufferer on one of the beds of twigs that the savages had
made for us, and here the doctor set himself to work to more securely
bandage his patient's shoulder; Jack Penny looking on, resting upon his
gun, and wearing a countenance full of misery.

"There!" said the doctor when he had finished. "I think he will do now.
Two inches lower, Master Penny, and he would have been a dead man."

"I couldn't help it!" drawled Jack Penny. "I thought he was a savage
coming to kill us. I'm always doing something. There never was such an
unlucky chap as I am!"

"Oh, you meant what you did for the best!" said the doctor, laying his
hand on Jack Penny's shoulder.

"What did he want to look like a savage for?" grumbled Jack. "Who was
going to know that any one dressed up--no, I mean dressed down--like
that was an Englishman?"

"It was an unfortunate mistake, Penny; you must be more careful if you
mean to handle a gun."

"Here, take it away