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AUSTRALIAN PICTURES. 



Wattle Tree flat, is in trouble. Two of his little ones are astray.' Then it is 



that human fellowship shows to advantage. All business is laid aside. The 



sheep that were being bargained for are neither bought nor sold ; the hay is 



left unstacked ; the reaping is discontinued. Nothing can be done that night 



beyond searching around 



the homestead, but all 



night long the clatter of 



horses' hoofs will tell of 



new arrivals, and the 



morning will witness a 



couple of hundred men 



ready to be divided into 



parties and to take care 



that no portion of the 



country is unsearched. 



Found ! 



From east and west parties will return disconsolate and silent ; but the joyous 

 ' Coo-e-e ! ' of the returning horsemen on the southern hill-top will tell its own 

 tale of rescue. But rarely does a second night elapse before the distracted 

 mother has her children with her again, and one night in the Australian 

 bush is not likely to have injured the little ones much. 



