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TALES.

147

Yanūūnye, ma māra nōmbīmunnōlo.
Yanuunye, wurruƞa, wunnianye, bangun-
adtha. Yandthaojīna:

" Wudthaolono, ka-ū!
Ƞaiurāga ƞaiīa. Yanāga.

Yakulīli guiangal," yaparanu, "jambin-
yuna.

Yanaonye, gumma ginnamaraya ;
kurairi kūlaƞiyema, ny-ao-umbõni, ma
mainjiwanna buttunu murriba.

Yanaonye, jambi, nyaonidtha thun-
buƞaruƞa wulluƞaranya, irrininagaor-
anna."

Bundilli wenkinoji ƞundiƞura, wurri-
galla na, mai-īraji jellowigallu yirrimūla
warrinowarri, kabūtsh ƞūri, minirra ƞūri,
bungoïn; yanilla wurriji merīro; "jergāra
jūwē wurraora indai." Banboro-gundo.

Murraoga nēnjī thōgunda, kūmiranyī
kunniƞ-yēkumba, murrai-ōga nēnji ƞaia
thogunda nyaimbioga Bundarwai.

Let us run away, because nasty fish
(are what he gives you). Let us run
away, children, let us leave him when he
goes out far. He follows them.

" Where are you? holloa !
I hear them over there. I must go
there.

There they are, the Southerners" he
says, "Our brother-in-law coming.

Let us go, let us make the spear ready ;
all ready; you are a good marksman ; you
wait here, because this is the path the
kangaroo takes–his road.

Let us go, brother-in-law; you'll see
your wife's country; you'll see the great
precipice,"

Bundoola's wife belonged to that place.
" You come close to the edge; you stop
here." They shove him over a good way,
kill him dead. "Rope (vine); you catch
hold of the rope." He comes up a long
way to the top. "Cut the rope: serve you
right: you dead now." This was at
Banboro.

I'll go home to my place; this place is
too rough ; I'll go a little further. This
is the good habitation. I'll stop here at
Bundarwa.

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In these Thurumba and Thurawal tales, it is easy to see some of the root words which are used on the Namoi and in Queensland. There are "thulin" or "tullun" (tongue), “yan" (go), "nanyi" (see), "ƞaia" (I)," indai" (thou); "merir" or "mirir" is sky or top, as in Wodi-wodi; "bul" means jealousy in Kamilaroi, and the sea in Thurawal. “Nadjoƞ" (water) is the same root as in Wodi-wodi.

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