wizard in Australian Fairy Tales
hrough the garden they advanced Making for the Lawn! On they came! The Emus stately, Proudly, quietly, sedately; Followed by the Herons fine! Wombats, Wallabys and Dingoes; Grey Companion-Flamingoes;— ’Keets and Lories line on line! Woolly Bears and ’Possums grey; Singing birds and birds of prey; P…
- Record ID
- 1,409
- Year
- 1,925
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Index status
- Public search-ready
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- Record ID
- 1409
- Source
- Project Gutenberg Australia
- Publication
- Australian Fairy Tales and related Australian tale books; Hume Cook / Ethel Buckland
- Published
- 1925
- Narrative type
- Retellings and Adaptations
- Public-text label
- wizard
- Archive period
- Federation Era
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
- Source voice
- Source Grounded Section Record
- Publicness
- Public Domain Public Web
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hrough the garden they advanced Making for the Lawn! On they came! The Emus stately, Proudly, quietly, sedately; Followed by the Herons fine! Wombats, Wallabys and Dingoes; Grey Companion-Flamingoes;— ’Keets and Lories line on line! Woolly Bears and ’Possums grey; Singing birds and birds of prey; Platypuses; blue-tongued Lizards; Mallee Hens, and Bower-Bird wizards,— Hiding all they find away! Cockatoos, white, black and pink; Kestrels, Kites and Shrikes and Bats; Flying Foxes; Native Cats; Plovers from the Marsh’s brink! Kangaroos, like tall men walking; Cassowarys gravely stalking; Falcons black, and Wedge-tailed Eagles,—.
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