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The Dingo Boys, by G. Manville Fenn
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Title: The Dingo Boys The Squatters of Wallaby Range
Author: G. Manville Fenn
Illustrator: W. S. Stacey
Release Date: November 6, 2007 [EBook #23374]
Language: English
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The Dingo Boys; or, The Squatters of Wallaby Range, by George Manville Fenn.
CHAPTER ONE.
"HAVE I DONE RIGHT?"
"Better stay here, squire. Aren't the land good enough for you?"
"Oh yes; the land's good enough, sir."
"Stop and take up a run close by. If you go yonder, the piggers'll eat you without salt."
Here followed a roar of laughter from the party of idlers who were busy doing nothing with all their might, as they lounged about the wharves and warehouses of Port Haven.
Emigrants' guide-books said that Port Haven was a busy rising town well inside the Barrier Reef on the east coast of Northern Australia, and offered abundant opportunities for intending settlers.
On this particular sunny morning Port Haven was certainly not "busy," and if "rising," it had not risen enough for much of it to be visible. There were a few wooden buildings of a very rough description; there