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_Title:_ Billabong Adventurers
_Date of first publication:_ 1927
_Author:_ Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958)
_Date first posted:_ Nov. 22, 2017
_Date last updated:_ Mar. 29, 2019
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STORIES BY
MARY GRANT BRUCE
Published by
WARD, LOCK & CO., LTD.
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“Mrs. Bruce has a story to tell,
and she sets about doing it in her
own straightforward way, without
resort to padding. Her style is
never laboured, it matches its
subject in its naturalness. Smiles
and tears, humour and pathos, blend
in her books as they do in life
itself.”
—_The Queen._
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JIM AND WALLY
NORAH OF BILLABONG
TIMOTHY IN BUSHLAND
GRAY’S HOLLOW
GLEN EYRE
FROM BILLABONG TO LONDON
A LITTLE BUSH MAID
’POSSUM
DICK
CAPTAIN JIM
DICK LESTER OF KURRAJONG
BACK TO BILLABONG
THE STONE AXE OF BURKAMUKK
THE TWINS OF EMU PLAINS
BILLABONG’S DAUGHTER
MATES AT BILLABONG
THE HOUSES OF THE EAGLE
THE TOWER ROOMS
BILLABONG ADVENTURERS
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BILLABONG
ADVENTURERS

BY
MARY GRANT BRUCE

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

Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London

CONTENTS

I GOLDEN FLEECES
II A DISH OF GOSSIP
III A BILLABONG DAY
IV NORAH’S WEDDING-DAY
V THE VALLEY IN THE HILLS
VI THE CAMP
VII BUSH DWELLERS
VIII HORSESHOE VALLEY
IX THE SKY-LINE
X WHAT THEY FOUND
XI CHEN LUN OF LITTLE BOURKE STREET
XII OF PLOTS AND A PLAN
XIII LI CHANG, GENTLEMAN
XIV HOW THE GODS CAME TO HELP
XV HOW THEY KEPT FAITH
XVI LI NING’S HIDING-PLACE
XVII HOW LI CHANG SANG A SONG
XVIII HOW THREE WENT HOME