Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) KANGAROO BY D. H. LAWRENCE LONDON MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI LONDON: MARTIN SECKER (LTD.), 1923. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. TORESTIN 1 II. NEIGHBOURS 20 III. LARBOARD WATCH AHOY! 38 IV. JACK AND JAZ 51 V. COO-EE 79 VI. KANGAROO 110 VII. THE BATTLE OF TONGUES 137 VIII. VOLCANIC EVIDENCE 164 IX. HARRIET AND LOVAT AT SEA IN MARRIAGE 188 X. DIGGERS 197 XI. WILLIE STRUTHERS AND KANGAROO 216 XII. THE NIGHTMARE 238 XIII. “REVENGE!” TIMOTHEUS CRIES 292 XIV. BITS 302 XV. JACK SLAPS BACK 319 XVI. A ROW IN TOWN 330 XVII. KANGAROO IS KILLED 361 XVIII. ADIEU AUSTRALIA 383 CHAP: I. TORESTIN A bunch of workmen were lying on the grass of the park beside Macquarie Street, in the dinner hour. It was winter, the end of May, but the sun was warm, and they lay there in shirt-sleeves, talking. Some were eating food from paper packages. They were a mixed lot--taxi-drivers, a group of builders who were putting a new inside into one of the big houses opposite, and then two men in blue overalls, some sort of mechanics. Squatting and lying on the grassy bank beside the broad tarred road where taxis and hansom cabs passed continually, they had that air of owning the city which belongs to a good Australian.