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Page 66
The tribal children don't read the figures or names at the Exchange, and to sit
here on the cliff watching the unloading of ore is no fun if your soul is black.
Jambawal rolled across the sky, rushing the clouds toward the shore. Here he
comes ...
The tribal children don't read the figures or names at the Exchange, and to sit
here on the cliff watching the unloading of ore is no fun if your soul is black.
Jambawal rolled across the sky, rushing the clouds toward the shore. Here he
comes ...
Page 79
... dry smell of dust. The squealing of a wounded soul is heard for a time, but
presently all is quiet, the dust settles, and the blood becomes caked and hard in
the bright sun. Five-dog Night How could a soul live in a cage Yuda, the Children
79.
... dry smell of dust. The squealing of a wounded soul is heard for a time, but
presently all is quiet, the dust settles, and the blood becomes caked and hard in
the bright sun. Five-dog Night How could a soul live in a cage Yuda, the Children
79.
Page 83
Soon I shall be off to the black man's world; Wati and every Pitjanta soul are there
— only I am kept outside, and ... it should not be for much longer now. "Drink your
milk, have some dog biscuits." Warden points to two bowls in the cage.
Soon I shall be off to the black man's world; Wati and every Pitjanta soul are there
— only I am kept outside, and ... it should not be for much longer now. "Drink your
milk, have some dog biscuits." Warden points to two bowls in the cage.
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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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