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Page 4
I must hurry up the slopes and reach the top of the mountain before the rocks
underfoot become like red coals. The dingo lags behind, sitting down now and
then as if hoping that I will turn back, but rising again as I move and struggling
forward ...
I must hurry up the slopes and reach the top of the mountain before the rocks
underfoot become like red coals. The dingo lags behind, sitting down now and
then as if hoping that I will turn back, but rising again as I move and struggling
forward ...
Page 18
... across a small yard and then his steps hurry down a short passage. He does it
once a day — pushes a food bowl under the bars and hisses "Bloody boong! The
rest of us have to earn our meal." No, I don't think he's seen me. He never peers ...
... across a small yard and then his steps hurry down a short passage. He does it
once a day — pushes a food bowl under the bars and hisses "Bloody boong! The
rest of us have to earn our meal." No, I don't think he's seen me. He never peers ...
Page 52
I should have pleaded with the whites to take me from the surveyors' camp to the
bush again with some food for the children, but no one had time for that —
everyone was in a hurry to block the river gap before the start of the Wet. Look
here ...
I should have pleaded with the whites to take me from the surveyors' camp to the
bush again with some food for the children, but no one had time for that —
everyone was in a hurry to block the river gap before the start of the Wet. Look
here ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Babaru: Stories Illinois short fiction |
| Author | B. Wongar |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252009959, 9780252009952 |
| Length | 102 pages |
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