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bambults asked their little nephews what bone that was ? 

 and they replied, "This is our mother's shoulder blade; our 

 father and we ate the flesh off it this morning for breakfast- 

 Father killed our mother some days ago." The Brambam- 

 bults became very wrath, because their sister had been 

 murdered and eaten, but they kept it to themselves. 



After pondering over the outrage for a while, they asked 

 their nephews to build up a hut, consisting of nothing but 

 dry wood and boughs, and make a small door in one side of 

 it. They told the boys that the building was for their 

 father to sleep in that night, when he returned from his 

 hunting, as it looked like rain. The Brambambults then 

 went away and pitched their camp some distance off. 



By and by Dyuni-dyunity returned and enquired of his 

 sons why they had built the hut. They replied that their 

 uncles had been to see them, and pointed out their camp 

 fire in the distance. This alarmed Dyuni-dyunity and he 

 said he would kill the younger Brambambult before long. 

 He started out hunting next morning and brought home 

 human flesh. It was his custom every day to search about 

 for blackfellows, whom he killed and secured the daintiest 

 parts of their bodies, which he carried to his camp for him- 

 self and his boys. He cooked some of the flesh and sent a 

 portion by his sons to the Brambambults' camp, but they 

 refused it, saying that they had plenty of meat of their 

 own. Moreover, they told the lads that they were going 

 right away the same afternoon, into another part of the 

 country, and asked them to tell their father so. This was 

 a ruse to throw Dyuni-dyunity off his guard and make him 

 feel confident in his security while he slumbered through 

 the night. But the Brambambults only moved into a patch 

 of scrub, where they hid themselves. 



That evening the Brambambults, who were clever 

 wizards, caused a heavy downpour of rain, which made 



