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 * Two blackfellows || Bulloomanna kurni.
 * | Two quarrelsome blackfellows || Bulloo yirakal kurni.
 * Two women || Bulloo wrookut.
 * Two nice-looking women || Bulluo laen wrookut.
 * Two spears || Bullum warl.
 * Two sharp spears || Bullum jullunbroo warl.
 * Two meals (e.g., dinners) || Bullum darndroo luck.
 * || (eat) (food)
 * Two great meals || Bullum guerrale luck.
 * }
 * Two sharp spears || Bullum jullunbroo warl.
 * Two meals (e.g., dinners) || Bullum darndroo luck.
 * || (eat) (food)
 * Two great meals || Bullum guerrale luck.
 * }
 * || (eat) (food)
 * Two great meals || Bullum guerrale luck.
 * }
 * }

.—It seems that at that time the eaglehawk is supposed to have claimed all the 'possums as well as the kangaroos as his property. Hence he speaks of the hole in the tree in which lives the ring-tail 'possum as "belonging to him."

Told by one of the Tatoongolong tribe, which inhabited the strip of land between the Gippsland Lakes and the sea.