Boy Alone Author:Reginald Ottley The boy worked as a "wood-and-water joey" on a vast cattle-station at the edge of the Australian desert-and he was very much alone. Of course, there were stockmen and the aboriginals, and old Kanga with his dog pack, as well as kind Mrs. Jones, the cook. They all liked the boy-more than he realized-but his whole life was bound up in on of Kanga'... more »s dogs, and her puppy Rags, who had been put in his care until the pup was partly grown. Then Kanga planned to train Rags to be the leader of the pack, as lone and ruthless as the old man himself.« less