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Issue Details: First known date: 1946... 1946 The Comedy of the Milky Way and the Mystic and Magic Folklore of the Aborigines
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This short book contains a series of poems that comprise 'The Comedy of the Milky Way' and accounts of several Indigenous Australian stories, based on the work of Daisy Bates and Prof. Baldwin Spencer.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,: 1946 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
To Daisy Bates, C.B.E. : Kabbarli - The Magical Grand-Motheri"Perchance there is more than is mortal in this magic name", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 5-6)
Alkira-Alkooma-Orai"Three little black boys one pleasant afternoon", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 7)
Ku-Beek and Boorai"Three little black girls fall fast asleep", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 7-8)
(Beek)i"Beek - an Arunta belle -", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 9)
Lost in the Milky Wayi"Three little black belles have lost their way", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 10-11)
The Native Road to the Skyi"Dread thunders shook the courts of heaven!", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 11)
The Native Road to the Sky : Per the Milky Wayi"Now in that belt of umbered air", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 12-14)
Romance of the Dream Babiesi"Yamminga - that age old Spirit", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 15-16)
Koolibal - The Mother Turtlei"Koolibal surely knows the sign", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 16-17)
The Creed of the Koolarrabullooi"More ideal is the intuition", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 17)
Byambee Turns Three Little Black Boys into Three Black Crowsi"Where Sirius with his white suns roams about the sky", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 18-19)
That Terrible White Mani"Was ever yet such a tragedy", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 20-21)
Death of Warrior - Woomerai"In the Early Spring when the moon was full", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 22)
The Deserti"Three years of drought intense", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 23-25)
The Legend of Yuria Gabel, T. P. Deegan , single work children's fiction children's Indigenous story (p. 26)
The Legend of Yuria Wateri"From the arid North in Dreamtime the famished natives came", T. P. Deegan , single work poetry children's (p. 27)
The Miracle of Ooldea Water, T. P. Deegan , single work children's fiction children's Indigenous story (p. 28)
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