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There the Gayandi swung, making a whirring noise. 'What's that? said the women. 'We'll have a look what it is. Seeing Byamee they said, 'We heard voices in that big tree over there. 'Whereabouts? he said. 'In that Coolabah tree. Such strange voices, such as we never heard. 'You two go' he said, 'to our camp and make a fire. I'll go and see what it is.
One year the manna just streamed down the Coolabah and Bibbil trees; it ran down like liquid honey, crystallising where it dropped. The old blacks said, 'It is a drought now, but it will be worse.
One day he was chopping a big Coolabah tree close to Weetalibah water-hole, which tree, much to the horror of our blacks, was burnt down a few years ago by travellers. As Byamee chopped, out flew a big chip. He heard the whizzing sound it made, gave another chop, out flew another; again the whizzing sound. 'That is what I want, he said I'll make a Gayandi of wood.
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