The Adventures of Bub & Tub: Volume One

By Gillian Wells and Lacey Bellette

Bub & Tub's adventures are fun, exciting, and easy to enjoy. Tub is a small rather naughty black and white dog and his best mate, a small grey pony called Bub. They both like exploring and get into all sorts of scrapes. There are other animals too like Mr Roo, the Kookaburra family, and other dogs. Em

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group
• Release date: Feb 1, 2021
• ISBN: 9781922444226

Gillian Wells

Gillian is a lovely English lady who lives in rural Queensland with her cattle dog Jess. She has three children living in Australia, France and England and four grandchildren. She loves meeting people and has travelled widely in Australia and is one of Australia's best known and enjoyed authors.Gillian is also the author of over ten additional adult books which include Alone, Belonging, Families, Lost, Returned, Consequences, Travelling, Inheritance, Possession and coming in 2024... Compulsion. The Adventures of Bub and Tub series are Gillian's first children's books to be published with Boots & Scoots being her third children's book.

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THE

AMAZING

ADVENTURES OF

BUB & TUB

VOLUME ONE

Gillian Wells

THE

AMAZING

ADVENTURES OF

BUB & TUB© 2021

by Gillian Wells. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. 

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. 

Gillian Wells

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Printed in Australia

First Printing: Feb 2021

Shawline Publishing Group Pty Ltd

www.shawlinepublishing.com.au

PAPERBACK ISBN - 9781922444219

EBOOK ISBN - 9781922444226

For Penny and Billy who these stories were written for

and also, Ella and Alice.

CHAPTER ONE

At one time there was a little grey pony called Bub who lived on a cattle station in Australia. Her best friend was a small fat black and white dog called Tub. Tub and Bub played together every day and liked having lots of fun.

One day they found a hole in the fence round the paddock that Bub could squeeze through. So off they set.

They climbed a small hill, then down the other side where they came to a creek. The water didn't look too deep, and they were both hot, so they plunged in. It was all right for Bub but too deep for Tub's little, short legs and it wasn't long before he was being swept downstream.

‘Hang on Tub,’ neighed Bub. ‘I am coming.’

Though only a little pony, her legs were longer, and she was a strong swimmer. She swam quickly and grabbed Tub by his collar and swam to the further bank.

They were both puffed after that, so they lay down, and had a rest and a snooze. When they woke it was getting dark. They felt rather worried as they wanted to find a shallower place to cross the creek.

They didn't know whether to go right or left, and the daylight was fading fast. Just then a big kangaroo came along.

‘How yer going?’ he asked. So, they told him their worries.

‘No problem,’ said the Kangaroo ‘I can show you the best place to cross.’

‘Thank you, Mr Roo,’ Bub and Tub said.  ‘That would be bonzer.’

Off they set. However, it wasn't long before Tub was struggling to keep up.   

‘Jump on my back,’ said Bub kneeling down, so Tub did and off they set again. Soon they came to a place where the creek was just a little trickle and they could cross it safely. ‘Thank you, Mr Roo,’ they called as they set off for the break in the fence.

As they squeezed through, they heard someone calling.  It was now very dark, but they knew it was Emily, the little girl who they belonged to.

‘Over here,’ barked Tub and soon Emily was there making a fuss of them.

‘Where have you two been?’ she asked, ‘I was so worried.’

Bub and Tub looked at each other and silently thought they would not go off on their own again.

It was rather a silly thing to do and could have finished with one of them in real trouble. So, after that they just played in the paddock and only went further if Emily was with them.

CHAPTER TWO

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Tub first came to live with Emily as a half-grown puppy. Emily’s father John found him wandering about in town when he went to get some things he needed. No one knew who his parents were,  he was rather a mixture of breeds. The beautiful Kelpies that were kept as cattle dogs looked down on him and teased him lots- especially as he had such short legs and a rather large body! Mostly he took no notice, but sometimes it made him rather sad.

‘I wish I was different,’ he said to Bub.

‘You are just great the way you are and Emily loves you,’ she said. ‘That’s all you should worry about.’

When the wet season came everyone got fed up when it just kept on raining .Then one day the sun was shining, the birds were singing, the horses were whinnying and everybody was happy.

‘Come on,’ said Emily ‘Let’s go out for a good ride.’

So off they went.

They climbed the hill and trotted down the other side, stopping to let Tub catch up. Then off again, quite fast, across the next paddock. Suddenly a wombat hole gave way right under Bub’s hooves. The wet weather had made it collapse. Bub went right down onto her nose and Emily went over her head and hit a rock! Tub came racing up behind.

‘Oh dear, are you all o.k?’ he asked.

Emily didn’t reply and Bub just lay there looking winded. Emily was still holding the reins, which in the fall had got wrapped around her hand.

‘I can’t move,’ said Bub, ‘As I might hurt Emily. What shall we do?’

‘Hang on,’ said Tub, ‘I will get help’ Off he raced as fast as his little short legs would carry him- up the hill and down the other side, across the paddock to the homestead where, panting heavily, he barked and barked as best he could.

Emily’s mother came out wiping her hands on a towel.

‘Be quiet, you noisy dog!’ she scolded.

Tub ran backwards a few paces, then forward again, still barking.

‘John!’ called Emily’s mother. ‘Something must have happened to Emily, quick do something!!!’

John rushed to the yard and saddled his horse, while Tub ran round and round barking, then