item: #1 of 4 id: 21383 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: Adventures in Australia date: None words: 36662 flesch: 79 summary: I should like to go and see it, I exclaimed; can we do so without risk of being discovered? Taking Toby to guide us, while Bracewell remained in camp, we set out. Thankful you've come, gentlemen, he exclaimed; though Mr Bracewell's round the corner, he'll be glad of your society. keywords: able; animal; appearance; arms; attack; attempt; australia; baggage; better; big; birds; blacks; bob; boughs; bracewell; brother; bull; bushrangers; camp; care; cattle; chance; chase; close; companions; country; couple; course; day; days; dingoes; direction; distance; dogs; dominie; doubt; emu; escape; evening; events; expected; far; fear; feet; fellows; fire; food; friends; glad; good; grass; great; ground; guard; guide; guns; guy; half; hand; head; hector; hole; home; horses; hut; instant; journey; kangaroo; keeping; large; laughing; left; legs; length; likely; little; long; look; loud; man; matter; men; miles; mob; moment; morning; natives; near; neighbourhood; night; number; object; old; oliver; open; party; possible; prepared; prisoners; reach; ready; rest; return; ride; riding; rifle; risk; run; saddle; scrub; search; sergeant; sheep; shepherd; short; small; somewhat; sound; spears; spot; station; stop; strong; sure; thick; thought; throwing; time; toby; trees; use; visit; watch; water; way; whips; white; wild; work; young cache: 21383.txt plain text: 21383.txt item: #2 of 4 id: 23374 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range date: None words: 68679 flesch: 89 summary: At the cheer three ladies came out of the companionway, followed by a short, grey, fierce-looking man, who walked eagerly to the group of boys. Now, boys, saddle up, cried the captain. keywords: 'em; able; act; afraid; air; alarm; attack; aunt; baal; bad; bag; beautiful; bedford; better; big; bit; black; black fellow; bong; boomer; boomerang; boys; bread; breakfast; brother; budgery; bull; burning; burst; bushes; busy; camp; captain; careful; case; cattle; chapter; chimney; close; club; coming; coo; country; couple; course; cousin; cow; cut; damper; danger; darkness; day; days; dead; dear; deep; direction; distance; doctor; door; dozen; drive; edge; edward; end; enemy; english; evening; eyes; face; faint; far; fast; father; fear; feeling; feet; fellow; figure; find; fine; fire; flour; forward; fresh; gallop; garden; georgie; german; gib; girls; glad; glorious; good; grass; great; growing; guard; gun; guns; half; hand; happy; hard; head; hear; heavy; help; henley; high; hold; home; hope; horrible; horses; hour; house; ida; jack; journey; kangaroo; kill; kitchen; knife; know; ladies; lady; land; large; laughing; laughter; lay; leave; left; let; life; like; lips; little; long; look; looking; loophole; loud; lying; making; marmi; mary; master; meal; means; mind; minutes; moment; morning; mouth; mrs; mumkull; munday; near; nearer; ned; need; new; noise; nonsense; norman; nulla; old; open; paddock; party; people; piece; place; plain; plenty; pointed; poor; port; position; possible; quick; ready; reply; rest; result; ride; rifle; right; river; room; rose; rough; round; run; rush; rustling; said; sam; satisfied; savage; saw; scrub; set; shanter; sharp; shelter; shot; shoulder; sign; silence; sir; sleep; smoke; snake; soff; soft; spear; spite; start; stay; stick; stop; sugar; sun; sure; tail; talk; tam; tea; tent; terrible; things; thought; throw; thrust; tickpence; tim; time; track; trees; tub; turn; uncle; uttered; voice; wagons; wait; want; watch; watching; water; way; weapon; white; wild; window; wood; words; work; yards; yohi; young cache: 23374.txt plain text: 23374.txt item: #3 of 4 id: 56699 author: Bruce, Mary Grant title: The Stone Axe of Burkamukk date: None words: 66737 flesch: 90 summary: He was a little man, but he had the quick movements of many little men, and at all times he could move rapidly through the Bush, scarcely making a sound as he went. You are so beautiful, he would say, that you should be far away in my wonderful country, where you would see many great men and lovely women; but none more lovely than Mitjen. keywords: able; afraid; ago; air; angry; animals; arm; away; axe; bad; bank; bark; beautiful; best; better; big; birds; blacks; body; booran; boys; brothers; bunjil; burkamukk; bush; camp; canoe; chance; chapter; chief; children; close; clouds; cold; come; coming; cooked; country; course; creek; cry; dance; dancing; dark; daughters; day; days; dead; deal; deep; dityi; dog; drink; dry; earth; edge; eggs; end; evening; evil; eyes; face; fall; far; father; fear; feathers; feet; fierce; fighting; find; fire; fish; flat; food; forest; friends; frog; game; garn; girls; glad; going; good; grass; great; green; gum; half; hand; happy; hard; head; heart; help; high; hill; hole; home; huge; hungry; hunting; hurt; inda; jel; kangaroo; kari; karwin; kind; kon; kuperee; kur; laughing; laughter; left; life; like; little; log; lonely; long; look; lost; loved; magic; man; matter; meki; men; mighty; mind; miraga; mirran; mitjen; moment; moon; morning; mother; mud; murla; native; near; nest; new; night; nose; notice; old; open; pelican; people; pilla; place; possum; power; proud; pund; puralkas; queer; quick; quiet; ready; river; rock; roo; round; run; running; saying; scrub; sea; sisters; sitting; skin; sky; sleep; soft; spears; stars; sticks; stone; story; strange; strong; sure; tail; talking; tall; terrible; terror; things; thought; throwing; time; tired; tree; tribe; trouble; true; turn; use; uttered; voice; wall; want; wapiya; warreen; warriors; water; waung; weapons; white; wide; wife; wildoo; wind; wings; wish; wokala; women; wonderful; wonkawala; work; world; wurip; wurley; yillin; young; yurong cache: 56699.txt plain text: 56699.txt item: #4 of 4 id: 58098 author: Pitts, Herbert title: Children of Wild Australia date: None words: 21629 flesch: 78 summary: [Illustration: HUNTING PARROTS AND COCKATOOS] For hundreds and hundreds of years the aborigines had this vast country to themselves, for though Spaniards, like Torres and De Quiros, and Dutchmen, like Tasman and Dirk Hartog, had visited their shores, and an Englishman named William Dampier had even landed in the North West in 1688, it was not till exactly a hundred years afterwards that white men first came to make their homes in their land. Sometimes, of course, when the weather is very hot and close and sultry they do not work as well as at other times, but what white man or child would not prefer to rest under such circumstances? keywords: able; aboriginal; age; animals; australia; baby; bark; beautiful; belief; big; birds; black; blackfellows; bodies; body; bone; book; boomerang; boughs; boys; bush; camp; care; ceremonies; chapter; children; chocolate; christ; christian; church; country; course; cut; day; days; dead; death; different; earth; emu; evil; eyes; far; father; feet; fire; fish; food; girls; god; good; grass; great; ground; hand; head; help; home; hope; illustration; jesus; kangaroo; kind; land; large; leaves; lessons; life; like; little; little children; lives; living; long; lord; love; magic; making; man; means; medicine; men; miles; mission; missionaries; mother; names; native; near; new; night; north; number; old; older; parts; people; piece; place; play; poor; power; rain; religion; river; sacred; saw; school; sheep; sky; spear; spirits; stations; stick; stone; stories; story; strange; sun; things; time; totem; tree; tribe; use; water; way; ways; weapons; western; white; wild; wild australia; women; wonderful; wood; work; yarrabah; years; young cache: 58098.txt plain text: 58098.txt