Young Berringtons: The Boy Explorers, The
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Chapter 1. The Young Colonists Introduced...
_ CHAPTER ONE. THE YOUNG COLONISTS INTRODUCED--EXPECTANT RELATIVES--IN SEARCH OF "OLD BOLTER"--A DINNER IN THE BUSH--BOLTER TRIES TO ESCAPE--ENCOUNTER BLACKS--BOLTER BROUGHT BACK--SANDY MACDOUGAL
"I wonder what sort of fellows these English cousins of ours will turn out?" exclaimed Harry Berrington, as he rode up alongside his elder brother Paul. "Judging by their photographs, which Uncle Frank sent us out last year, I have an idea that they are mighty fine young gentlemen, who will be apt to turn up their noses at us colonial ‘corn-stalks.‘"
"Hector and Reginald are good-looking fellows, I should think, and wear fine clothes but beyond that--whether they are dark or fair, have blue eyes and pink cheeks, or whether they can ride, and shoot, swim, and play cricket, or can only dance and sing, or draw, or suchlike girlish things--I have not the slightest notion," answered Paul. "We shall, however, soon know; for, according to the l
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