Four Small Stones: Billy's Gotta Find Some Girls

By Gary Taaffe

Billy’s gotta find some girls. The problem is he’s an Aborigine from the Australian bush and all he’s got to wear is a loincloth. Not a good look in the city. And what’s worse, he’s never even seen a girl before. Could life get anymore difficult? Why yes it could. Billy could fall in love …

But first he

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bunya Publishing
• Release date: Apr 19, 2019
• ISBN: 9780648516200

Gary Taaffe

Gary Taaffe is the No.1 Bestselling Amazon Author of 9 fiction and 2 non-fiction books, including the Urban Hunters series for Young Adults and his Stampede series, a no-nonsense guide to book marketing for authors. New York Book Review, W.D La Rue said, "I would read ANYTHING this man wrote." Gary lives in Forster-Tuncurry, Australia, where he's surrounded by waterways for fishing and bushland for hunting. He writes fulltime with new books coming out in quick succession. Connect with Gary here: BunyaPublishing.com Facebook, Pinterest: Gary Taaffe Instagram: Gary_Taaffe Twitter @Urban_Hunters Email [e-mail]

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URBAN HUNTERS

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1. Four Small Stones

Billy’s gotta find some girls. The problem is he’s an Aborigine from the Australian bush and all he’s got to wear is a loincloth. Not a good look in the city. And what’s worse, he’s never even seen a girl before. Could life get anymore difficult? Why yes it could. Billy could fall in love …

But first he has to survive two devious older brothers and a couple of initiations to prove his manhood. Great.

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6. The Orphanage

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Book 1

FOUR SMALL STONES

Gary Taaffe

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Cast of Characters

Whenever you come across a character for the first time in this book, they’ll be linked to the Cast of Characters at the end of this story. It's a great reminder of who’s who in the zoo. Plus, you’ll learn how to pronounce their name.

Be sure to check out the Glossary too for some interesting Aussie spellings and colloquialisms.

Table of Contents

Titles Available in the Urban Hunters series

Title Page

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 — Four Small Stones

Chapter 2 — Sanctuary

Chapter 3 — The Stench of Something Dead

Chapter 4 — Don’t Wake the Bats

Chapter 5 — Billy’s Special Biscuits

Chapter 6 — Waiting Despondently for the Inevitable

Chapter 7 — Beware the Excess Load

Chapter 8 — Tea Cosy

Cast of Characters

Glossary

Thank You!

About the Author

Urban Hunters Books

Copyright

Bonus Feature

End of Book

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— CHAPTER ONE —

FOUR SMALL STONES

"Where’s your spirit, Billy?" Cobar said as his withered legs lowered him to the edge of the cliff face beside his great–grandson. He peered past his dangling feet to watch a stone descend beyond his eyesight into the river far below.

But Billy didn’t answer.

Cobar’s wisened years afforded him an enduring patience, so he tuned into the caress of cooling shade lavished upon him by a tortured old eucalyptus tree. He admired the twisted, gnarly, old trunk that bulged and clung with determination to a crack in the ancient rock wall. He unconsciously gave his nose–bone a twist while he considered how life had sculpted his own body. A fall down an embankment and a gash in his forearm had drawn a hungry dingo to the smell of his blood. So Cobar ate the dingo and salvaged its foreleg for a trophy. The bone now sat above his lip like a moustache, giving him an air of importance, and a memory that made him smile. All the twisting had made his nose itchy, so he slid out the bone and gave his nose a good scratch.

Finally, Billy sighed as if dragging himself into the relief of his elder’s presence.

Mother come to me last night, he said.

That’s why we have Corroboree here, Billy. Cobar spread his arms wide, displaying the mist swirling up through the carpet of treetops across the river. The spirits are strong, the ancestors can talk to us.

She want me to follow the river till the brown snake stand up, where he watch over them whitefellas.

Ah, it’s you! Cobar said while sliding his bone back into place. She show me big Red kangaroo go down river in a canoe.

Why she want me to go, Grandfather?

No future for you boys here. We the only Aborigines left. We gotta find you some girls or no more Dreaming.

But, Grandfather I’m only thirteen! I’m not even man yet. Them whitefellas gonna kill me too.

Your mother won’t let that happen, Billy. That’s why she pick you — you smart, you listen her, not like brothers. He indicated his head towards Billy’s older brothers, Mallee and Pindaari.

A tiny smile curled one edge of Billy’s full lips as he noticed Mallee selecting some stones from the dirt around their campsite — he knew his day was about to get interesting.

Not time yet anyway, Cobar said. Maybe when it is time, you be man. When you see the big Red kangaroo, you will know it is time!

Billy sat, despondent and quiet, while he considered how intense his mother had been this time. He knew she wanted him to leave soon, but he didn’t feel ready to go on his Walkabout yet. He wanted time to grow into a man at his own pace, like his brothers had, not in some kind of a hurry. He thought about the kangaroo and hoped Cobar was right, but then he worried about the fact that there were big Red kangaroos everywhere. The drought had lured them to the coast from out west in search of water. He decided not to look at them.

"When you got no future, Billy, you got no past —