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Jackaroo (Lane. 105. 6d.), told by Frank Ives and written down by Gascoigne I. ley," recounts adventures encountered by the former when he went out to North Queensland at the age of sixteen and a half somewhere about the year 1888. Life on a cattle station, wallabv shooting, snake stories and accounts of the life of the wild black fellows and skirmishes with them, arc the topics of the volume, which would make an admirable Christmas present for a boy. And thought there is nothing much new in tlfe book. even those who are no longer boys may be thrilled by Mr. Ives (or is it Mr. Lumley's ?) stories of brumbies and boomerangs, of elearskins and cattle-duffing ; while naturalists will joy to know that here at last in the person of Mr. Ives, is a man who has seen a snake swallow her living young for protection. Unfortunately. Mr. Ives could not kill the snake to confirm his observation. No one ever has.
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