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_Title:_ Back to Billabong
_Date of first publication:_ 1921
_Author:_ Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958)
_Date first posted:_ May 15, 2019
_Date last updated:_ May 15, 2019
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[Cover Illustration]

MARY GRANT BRUCE’S
=POPULAR STORIES=
Published by
WARD, LOCK & CO., LTD.

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  A LITTLE BUSH MAID
  TIMOTHY IN BUSHLAND
  MATES AT BILLABONG
  FROM BILLABONG TO LONDON
  GLEN EYRE
  NORAH OF BILLABONG
  GRAY’S HOLLOW
  JIM AND WALLY
  ’POSSUM
  DICK
  CAPTAIN JIM
  DICK LESTER OF KURRAJONG

[Illustration: “He scrambled out with the quilt and blankets bundled
round the things he had saved.” (_Frontispiece_)]

_Back to Billabong_] [_Chapter XV._

=BACK TO=
=BILLABONG=

=BY=
=MARY GRANT BRUCE=

=“Beyond the distant sky-line=
=(Now pansy-blue and clear).=
=We know a land is waiting,=
=A brown land, very dear:=
=A land of open spaces,=
=Gaunt forest, treeless plain:=
=And if we once have loved it=
=We must come back again.”=
=(_Dorothea Mackellar._)=

=W A R D , L O C K & C O . , L I M I T E D=
=LONDON AND MELBOURNE=
=1921=

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I LANCASTER GATE, LONDON, W.. . . 7

II THE RAINHAMS. . . . . . . . 22

III PLAYING TRUANT. . . . . . . 37

IV COMING HOME. . . . . . . . 49

V THE TURN OF FORTUNE’S WHEEL. . . 58

VI SAILING ORDERS. . . . . . . 71

VII THE WATCH DOGS. . . . . . . 84

VIII HOW TOMMY BOARDED A STRANGE TAXI. 94

IX THE WELCOME OF AUSTRALIA. . . . 113

X BILLABONG. . . . . . . . . 133

XI COLONIAL EXPERIENCES. . . . . 149

XII ON INFLUENZA AND FURNITURE. . . 173

XIII THE HOME ON THE CREEK. . . . . 193

XIV THE CUNJEE RACES. . . . . . . 207

XV HOW WALLY RODE A RACE. . . . . 230

XVI BUILDING UP AGAIN. . . . . . 243

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