Show HOW MOUNTED POLICE POUCE WORK IN AUSTRALIA In tho the da days s when the Inspector wax waz a trooper said ho lie he took a. a savage black fellow meaning fellow meaning by tW thu a a. black fellow of some Borne uncivilized bush for bush for tho the murder murder mur mur- der of ot a white whito squatter The Tho slaughter of ot ono one black fellow b by another Is la relatively relatively relatively rela rela- a thing of ot small consequence the aborigine who achieves this thin Is chastened b by an easy detention of ot a year or cr two and liberated to his tribe But ut to spear a a. white man in u a a. crime most meet heinous and intolerable It Is vIsIted vie vla- with a pursuit which seldom stops short Phort of ot capture or a L death at baY boy In the open open open-e. a chase of ot 1000 miles It may bo be be and grim prim action at the end of It It arrest or the alternative Having now with vast satisfaction taken his savage the tho Inspector made mado haste back with him aim toward his station to dodge rains raine But tho the rains caught him A river dry In tho the outward truck was waB widely In flood and on OD the bank of ot it It- It tho the rain threatening a long Increase the Increase the Inspector stopped chagrined It wa o as wild country and the trooper was alone with his captive who desired nothing more ns as the tho trooper very ery well knew than R a cunning dunning opportunity to do his captor to death A crossing must b be madeWell madeWell madeWell made Well now how bow the I Inspector In Inquired Inquired In- In d of oC us us In tn twinkling expectation of our bewilderment did I manage manago It You swam Ho Mo laughed First of ot all an I continued to tomake make mak the action pleasantly melodramatic you strapped your revolver on your head and having done this as any good bushman bushman bushman bush- bush man could you took your knife between your our tooth drove the black fellow lu in ad- ad vanco and so 50 camo came camo safely to the other side The invention ln was as woefully short of the reality II Tie plain said tho the Inspector that ou e never nover s seen n a a. black follow fellow In the water Man alive they swim like sharks like Ilko like turtle and A white man would have ha as much chance with mth a 0 croco dUe dile And thor theres there's s 's another thing I thing I cant can't swim a stroke Then you didn't get gel across Ah but lUt I did ho cried delighted I Imade Imade 1 made mallo 1 my prisoner take me And the big hud had a 0 clover dodge too I give gits him cr credit for I dinning I do that He ITo was to loop a strap over his forehead you see seo seo and let be flop along attlio other end It was as tho the surest way says saya ho the ho-the the usual way And that was as as quite true tle But It didn't suit m mv my book Ah Mi th they're sly treacherous rOll brutes Trust myself with that t freo treo In the water Not II Il I love Jove m m my lIr life Ho lie would T have turned on mo mr midway lie would have had bo drowned In a jiffy Ah no says I It Itma ma may mav be bo tha that t Tm mu to drown but If It I drown you'll drown and an that's the way vaY well we'll hn It It b gorry So I strapped his his' wrist to mine with mine with a foot toot of ot leather for leeway There was no getting loose neither for him nor for me take the slash h of a a. knife to do It I saw MW to the lashing myself Do you take tako my plan If one of or orIS us IS wont both would go co I had him fast He Ho couldn't get bet away He lie might drown me quite so IO but I would have my hau hands on his throat before ho he hoot got ot very vory far with tho the business and he would pa pay with Ith his life lIfo And then I drove dro him Into tho the water ater He took me Norman across Norman Duncan In Harpers Harper's Har ITar- I pers per's Magazine for February ar |