Page:The Boy Travellers in Australasia.djvu/404

This page has been validated.
380
THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA.

THE EMU.

"'A parallel to this terrible story is found in the fate of a woodman who was felling trees in the forest several miles from any one else. A burning tree fell on him and pinned him to the ground, but without doing him any serious injury. He was unable to extricate himself, and for the day and a half it took for the fire to smoulder slowly to him he