'An account of the wanderings of two small boys who are escaping from the law, and trying to reach the safety of their home in the bush' (
Brisbane Courier, Saturday 28 April 1928). 'Told in the first person by Joe who, with his friend Bob, becomes a boy swaggie. They run away from the city and go bush. On the road they meet real swaggies, discover the skeleton of a lost girl, and team up with King Billy—an aboriginal on walkabout. The usual Australian ingredients of bushfires and dingoes are there, and the whole is recounted in a laconic style that is perhaps meant to be an example of Australian terseness' (Saxby,
A History of Australian Children's Literature 1841-1941, p. 170).
