: The Stone Axe of Burkamukk by Bruce Mary Grant Macfarlane J Illustrator - Folklore Australia; Tales Australia; Aboriginal Australians Folklore

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An' then, when the man was almost done, They had an awful lots o' fun. A-walkin' down his stummick was best To make the buttons onter his vest! They struck big cartwheels in him for eyes; His eyes was both tremendous size; His nose was a barrel--an' then beneath They used a ladder, to make his teeth! An' when he was layin' acrost the street Along come their daddy, as white 's a sheet,-- He was skeert half outer his wits, I guess, An' he didn't know whatter make o' the mess,-- But Huldy she up an' begun to coax To have him down town, to skeer the folks! So her dad he grabbed him offen the street, An' Willie an' Wallie they took his feet, An' they dragged him clean down to the Cogswell fountain, An' stood him up as big as a mountain! You'd orter seen him a-standin' there, A-straddlin' Market street in the air!

An' all day long he leaned an' bent Till all expected he would have went An' pitched right over. They roped the street To keep the crowd away from his feet. I tell yer he was a sight; my soul! Twicet as high as a telegraft pole, Wavin' his arms an' slumpin' his feet An' a-starin' away down Market street.

An' that was the end o' the CHEWIN'-GUM MAN For Willie, an' Wallie, an' Huldy Ann. They come along with an ax next day, An' chopped him up, and guv him away.

My Feet they haul me 'round the House; They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them and They ride me everywheres.

I'd never dare to walk across A Bridge I could not see, For quite afraid of falling off I fear that I should be!

Then it puffed an' puffed, a-faster an' faster, While Wallie sat there like an old school-master, A-drivin' that train till, I tell you what! You no idea what a nerve he's got! Willie he held on to Wallie, an' Jane Held onto Willie with might and main. Then they hitched along, like an old inch-worm, With now a spazzum, and then a squirm; But Willie and Wallie and Pinkie Jane, They soon got sick o' that Railroad train! But when they crawled to the last end car To jump on the ground, where it wasn't far, They got a heap worse off, instead, For that nasty train, it stood on its head! An' they all yelled, "Telegraft Huldy Ann, And make her come as quick as she can. We can't get off. Oh, hurry up, please! What would we do if the thing should sneeze?"

I tell yer them children was in a fix While that mad engine was doin' his tricks. But the messenger-boy found Huldy Ann, An' she said, "I'm glad that I ain't a man! I'll show 'em how!" an' she crossed the Bay, An' she see in a wink where the trouble lay. An' she said, "You go, an' youou went back to avenge Kon-garn?" the chief asked, sternly.

Tullum looked at him with a curious mixture of shame and defiance.

"Nay," he said. "None of us have ever been reckoned cowards--and yet we did not go back. An ordinary enemy would not have made us afraid, but there is something about Kuperee that turns the very heart to water. We hated ourselves--we hate ourselves still--for not going back. The blood of Kon-garn cries out to us for vengeance on his slayer, and in our sleep we see our comrade, with his head crushed by that terrible foot. And yet we could not turn. We have come home to you like frightened children, and shame is on our heads. We know not how to face Kon-garn's wife, who sits there and cries 'Yakai!' before her wurley."

Another of the warriors, Woma the Swift-footed, spoke up, with sullen anger in his voice.

"We are shamed," he said, "but there is Magic in it. No true animal is Kuperee, but an evil spirit. No man could possibly stand before him."

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