Field notebook

Transcription - Page 35

the old people told me
that if you roast a
possum leave it there
the Mūrŭp will
come behind you
to warm himself and
will eat the possum.
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When a blackfellow
kills a possum and
eats some and leaves the
rest the Mūrŭp comes
and eats. ----------

Tham-bŭrr = grave

Sometimes Mūrŭp
comes back to the
grave and looks

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at it and says
that is my possum rug
that is my body.
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Once [at the side the- crossed out)]
near Mansfield
[Cathedral on the Goulburn- crossed out]
The people of Goulburn -
Devil River, Broken River
Kilmore - Camped
there [a little boy- crossed out]
[An old woman found - crossed out]
[a boy near Mansfield- crossed out]
[the newb - crossed out] Saw a [little boy - crossed out]
There was a new little
boy - to send about
from camp to camp
of possum and soon
An old woman
who had it not any
children saw him