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Aboriginal Leirend
This story was told to me by a riend who worked on a station. It ook quite a lot of coaxing to get the iborigine to speak, and a lot of to
bacco passed between my friend and the aboriginal A great marly years ago a great chief of the south-west district of Western Australia had a magic spear which had the power to make water; ?too, Jje had two 'juggraa's.? mean ing daughters, who were very pretty, and both had lovers from the same tribe. One day the four lovers ran away, taking the magic spear with them. Everywhere they went 'they dragged the spear behind them, thus forming a river. The old aboriginal chief in great rage followed the river to the coast. There he saw the lovers, ?so he jumped in to swim to the oppo site side where the lovers were but was carried out to sea and was drowned. -- \ ,There now 'ay be seen (the story teller assured me) a huge rock, which' Is named 'The Good Spirit,' which rose up from the chiefs body. Eva Johns (15), Kaolin street. Bro ken Hill.— Fink Certificate.