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DOT AND THE KANGAROO


by

Ethel C. Pedley




  To the
  children of Australia
  in the hope of enlisting their sympathies
  for the many
  beautiful, amiable, and frolicsome creatures
  of their fair land,
  whose extinction, through ruthless destruction,
  is being surely accomplished




CHAPTER I.


Little Dot had lost her way in the bush.  She knew it, and was very
frightened.  She was too frightened in fact to cry, but stood in the
middle of a little dry, bare space, looking around her at the scraggy
growths of prickly shrubs that had torn her little dress to rags,
scratched her bare legs and feet till they bled, and pricked her hands
and arms as she had pushed madly through the bushes, for hours,