oonoo
garwil. Baiyan boollarhgneh gwallannee. Dinewan gooway Goomblegubbon."

"Minyah goo ninderh booroolah birrahleegulgah gillunnah. Wahl ninder
booroolah goo garwil ooday. Tuggil ninderh boollarhyel gargillay baiyan
boollarhgnah, booral giggee, wahl ninderh booroolah goo gooloon
marlday." Goomblegubbon buthdi ginnee nalmee.

"Gullarh nayr nay birrahleegul boorool luggeray Dinewan? Boollarhyel
nay gillundi yahmerh boollarhgnah boorool giggee luggeray Dinewan."

Winnanunnee noo dungeway. Baiyan noo nurray Dinewan, nurray noo
boorool.

Baiyan noo gooway:

"Boomahlee doo gunnoono boollarhyel nayr gurrahwulday. Dinewan wahl
doorunmai gillay woggee goo. Goomblegubbon weel gillay doorunmai.
Goomblegubbon boorool giggee luggeray Dinewun, boonoong gunnoo goo
gurrahwulday. Baiyan noo boomay gunnoono birrahlee gul boollarhyel noo
gurrahway. Baiyanneh durrahwallunee nummerh nayr Dinewan doo
duldundigoo. Dinewandoo guggay."

"Minyah ninnoo birrahleegul?"

"Gunnoono nayr boomay boollarhyel gargillunnah."

"Wullundoo youlloo ninderh boomay! Booroolah nay birrahleegul,
gooloonmul dunnerli nayr gunnoonoo. Booroolah gunnoonoo. Nurraleh noill
doowar yu booloobunnee. Nurraleh boonboon. Nummerh nayr bayah
muldunnerh nay birrahlee gulloo."

"Boollarhyel ninnoo birrahlee garlee."

"Booroolah boollarh nay. Nayr di gargee ninnoonderh nurranmullee goo."

Dinewan bunnagunnee binnamayahgoo nayr noo doorimbundigoo birrableegul.
Baiyan naiyah durrabwullunee, dirralabeel ginnee noo boobootella,
gwallandy, "Boom, boom." Birrahleegul noo noo bunna gairlehwahndi,
beweererh nurrahwahndi, weeleer, weerleeer, Tuwerh munneh doorundi,
baiyanneh eelay nurrunnee. Baiyan noo gooway.

"Geeroo nayr ninnunnerh gooway. Gunnoono nayr nay birrahleegul
gurrahwuldunnerh. Nurullah Numerh nayr ninnoo nurragah birrahleegul!
Boomay ninderh ninnoo birrahleegul, ninderh nunnoo dung eemai! Tuggil
nayr lahnylay nayr boonoong ninderh boomah boollarhyel birrahleegarlee
gargillay. Gurrahwuldare ninnoo boonong nayr luggeeroo, gurrahwulday
nay birrahleegul."

Mrs. Parker writes: "The old black woman who first told me the tale is
away, but I got another old woman of the pre-white era to tell it again
to me yesterday; it is almost the same, minus one of the descriptive
touches immaterial to the story as such; in fact, to all intents and
purposes, the same."

GLOSSARY

Bahloo, moon.
Beeargah, hawk.
Beeleer, black cockatoo.
Beereeun, prickly li