RECORD ID

2404

FIGURE

Fairy

NARRATIVE

Retellings and Adaptations

PRINTED LABEL

fairy

PUBLICATION

Steve Brown's Bunyip, and Other Stories; L. C. Barry

AUTHOR

Not specified

e of it, I seen—I seen—’ but here he paused dead for want of a vocabulary. ‘Well, thick-head, an’ wot was it ye seed—yer own hugly shadder, I s’pose?’ said Mrs Brown, as she caught up and slapped the baby playing with a pumpkin on the floor. ‘Look better on yer, it would, to wind me up a turn o’ water, an’ it washin’ day to-morrer, ’stead o’ comin’ pitchin’ fairy stories.’ ‘It warn’t,’ replied Steve, taking no notice of the latter part of her speech. ‘But it was as big—ay, an’ a lot bigger’n this hut. All black, an’ no hair it was; an’ ’t’ad two white tushes’s, long as my leg, only crookt, an’ a snout like a big snake, an’ it were.

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1. 01fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 21878 · Internet Archive
2. 02fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 21878 · Internet Archive
3. 03fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 21878 · Internet Archive
4. 04fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 11878 · Internet Archive
5. 05fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 11878 · Internet Archive
6. 06fairy in The aborigines of Victoria, volume 11878 · Internet Archive