STEVE BROWN’S BUNYIP. [Illustration: ‘Oh! Good Mister Bunyip,’ he quavered, ‘let’s off this oncest.’ (Page 6.) _Frontispiece_] STEVE BROWN’S BUNYIP And Other Stories BY JOHN ARTHUR BARRY _WITH INTRODUCTORY VERSES_ BY RUDYARD KIPLING _NEW EDITION_ _Author of “In the Great Deep,” “The Luck of the Native Born,” “A Son of the Sea,” “Red Lion and Blue Star,” “Old and New Sydney,” etc._ N.S.W. BOOKSTALL CO. SYDNEY. 1905 _All Rights Reserved_ _John Sands, Printer, Sydney._ _CONTENTS._ PAGE Introduction xi Steve Brown’s Bunyip 1 Dead Man’s Camp 11 The Shanghai-ing of Peter Barlow 20 ‘Ex Sardanapalus’ 31 ‘Mo-Poke’ 51 Keeping School at ‘Dead Finish’ 60 ‘Number One North Rainbow’ 71 The Protection of the ‘Sparrowhawk’ 91 The Duke of Silversheen 105 The Officer in Charge 116 ‘Sojur Jim’ 123 Far Inland Football 136 On the Grand Stand 146 Too Far South 164 The Mission to Dingo Creek 179 Books at Barracaboo 192 ‘Barton’s Jackaroo’ 208 Told in the ‘Corona’s’ Cabin 229 ‘Dot’s Claim’ 265 A Cape Horn Christmas 277 AGAIN. There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in people’s memories, that once again the old ship has been brought forth, staunch as ever, to perform, it is hoped, faithful service on the outer seas. Something of this kind has happened in the case of “Steve Brown’s Bunyip.” The book has been so long out of print as to perhaps render any apology for its re-appearance needless. All the more so, as from many quarters through the years that have elapsed since its retirement, there have been frequent and kindly enquiries after its welfare. Also, numerous requests have reached the author that the book might again be allowed to test the weather of popular opinion, and, if possible, hold its own as it did aforetime.