Page 27 - An Australian Lassie

"Oh, T am glad they didn't see me!" she said aloud fervently.

Just then a voice shouted, a rough word to her from the path, and Betty awoke to two alarming facts. The one,
that she was in the emu's enclosure and that one great bird was bearing curiously towards her already; the
other, that her grandfather was the one who had called to her, and that John Brown, who was careering down
the path on his bicycle, had stopped and was evidently giving information about her.

Her grandfather waved an angry hand.

"Out you go!" he shouted. "Tf you come here again, T'll set the dogs loose!"

Betty squeezed herself under the fence just before the emu reached her, and once more faced a very crumpled
Monday morning.