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The Euahlayi Tribe

CHAPTER XV
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Who says this ?' ANS.

A stump that any one falls over.
'You cannot walk without me, yet you grease your body and forget me and let me crack, even though but for me you could neither walk nor run.
Who says that ?' ANS.

A black fellow's feet, which he neglects to grease when doing the rest of his body.
With riddles ends, I think, the list of the blacks' amusements, unless you count fights.

The blacks are a bit Celtic in that way; some are real fire-eaters, always spoiling for a row.

But in most everyday rows the feelings are more damaged than the bodies.
An old gin in a rage will say more in a given time, without taking breath, than any human being I have ever seen; it is simply physiologically marvellous.


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