promised to be dangerous, but he had done a record six-days' business,
and was content.

"But how'd yeh beat the blanky gorilla?" asked the Living Skeleton on the
morning after the rescue, as the Missing Link sat in his cage munching
preserved fruits presented to him in abundance by the grateful Kit See.

"How do you think?" replied the intelligent animal. "With an ammonia
squirt, of course. When he came at me I squirted a dose into him that
nearly killed him. I'm never without that little weapon, and I think,
Matthew really think that we shall teach the gorilla proper respect for
the superior animals before we have done with him. His desire to supplant
me in the scheme of evolution is contrary to science, my boy, and a
defiance of natural law, and must not be countenanced for a moment."



CHAPTER XI.

THE DEFEAT OF DAN HEELEY.

AT Big Timber Professor Thunder's Museum of Marvels had run for several
consecutive hours to satisfactory business, and was now well on its way
to The Mills, where a great day was expected in view of some local
festivity that meant a general holiday for the mill hands, and a bush
carousal.

The caravan was drawn up for tea in the moonlit bush by Howlet's jinker
track. A camp-fire blazed in the end of a butt under a wide-branching
gum. The Professor lay at a distance--for the night was warm--smoking on