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More Australian Legendary Tales

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More Australian legendary tales (1898)
by K. Langloh Parker

A spoken word version of this edition is available at LibriVox

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MORE AUSTRALIAN


Legendary Tales


COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS TRIBES BY

Mrs. K. LANGLOH PARKER

AUTHOR OF
Australian Legendary Tales


WITH INTRODUCTION BY

ANDREW LANG, M.A.


WITH ILLUSTRATION'S BY A NATIVE ARTIST


LONDON
DAVID NUTT, 270-271, STRAND
MELBOURNE
MELVILLE, MULLEN & SLADE
1898



"And he told me in a vision of the night:

There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays.

And every one of them is right!'"




ALL RIGHTS RESERVED



DEDICATED

TO

THE EUAHLAYI-SPEAKING PEOPLE

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF THEIR

EVER-WILLING ASSISTANCE IN

MY FOLK-LORE QUEST



This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1929.


The longest-living author of this work died in 1940, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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