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The hairyman
There is a bad spirit in our house the Hairyman. He plays tricks on us like pinching Aunty Lil's cup of tea. -
Sharyn
Chicky, my littlest sister, starts to tease 'Sharyn's got the hots for you,na na nanaa na!' she races back to the girls room. -
Meeting my Girragundji
PLOP! something lands on me, PLOP! now its on my forehead. PLOP! again.its on my cheek.Its...its...the green slime oh no! its a slow and painful death. NO...its...a...frog? A beautiful girragundji -
Big mob of mozzies for my Girragundji.
Iv'e got a big mob of mozzies for Gundji in my lunch-box. got them on the way home, down the creek. Mum goes right off when we squash them on the walls,'specially when they're full of blood. -
With my little frog, nothing can hurt me
I never used to lie with my head up this end. Now my girragundji is with me, I sleep with my head up the louvre end all the time. -
It's time I learnt to kill food to eat
It's time you learnt to kill food to eat, my boy. Dad gets me to grab the turtle. He shows me how to flip the turtle on its back and take him by the throat. the knife is long and sharp.Dad told me not to kill the female turtles and to let them go. -
TO GET RID OF THE HAIRYMAN
My Aunty reckons that the Hairyman's a migaloo. how bad's that, a whitefulla Hairyman. my mum thinks we need to smoke him out. -
the end of Girragundji
I flick open the louvres.Its her,calling out like death from under the house. Fear grabs by heart and squeezes tight a snake has got her,my girragundji i know it has. A snake AHHHHH.