At the same instant Dot could hear the sharp barking of a
sheep-dog, a noise that produced an instant effect on the creatures she
was with. With lightning speed the Kangaroo had popped her into her pouch
and was hopping away, and the Emu was striding with its long legs as fast
as it could for the cover of the Bush.
Just as they entered the Bush shelter, Dot peeped out of the pouch, across
the plain, and could see the mob of Emu in a cloud of dust, running, and
almost out of sight.
When they had reached a place of safety, the friendly Emu bid the Kangaroo
and Dot good night. "We shall have to be thirsty to-night," it said, "but
there will be a heavy dew, and the grass will be wet enough to cool one's
mouth. That pretty trick of ours was such a success that it is almost
worth one's while to lose one's drink in proving it." Turning to Dot it
said, "You will be able to tell the big Humans that we Emus are not such
fools as they think, and that we find their flocks of silly sheep most
useful and entertaining animals."
Chuckling to itself, the Emu strode off, leaving Dot and the Kangaroo to
pass another night in the solitudes of the Bush.
CHAPTER XI.
The next day they travelled a long distance. At about noon they came to a
part of the country which the Kangaroo said she well knew.
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