Red Dog: True Blue Page #3

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A What?

That fella,

he's a trickster marlunghu.

He is.

OK, come on, boy. Come on!

Honey, hi

Mmm, honey, ho

Well, how are you?

You alright

Babe, I can fix you up

Well, come on,

let's see what we can do... r

There you go.

Would you like some jam

with that? It's the melon one.

Whoa, boy! That was fast.

You know,

if we could figure out a way

to make money from fast eating,

we could get mighty rich.

Ready?

Don't be a scaredy-cat.

It's probably like

all the other caves.

Nothing big, nothing scary.

You see this, Blue?

You go first.

OK.

I'll go first.

No big deal.

Blue, you gotta get in here

and see this.

It's amazing.

We can use this as a hide-out.

We'll be the Ned Kelly

of the Pilbara.

I'll be Ned, that is.

And you'll be my best mate,

Joe Byrne,

scourge of the North West.

We'll bury our gold in here

and have orgies.

It's an awful snug place

for orgies, I reckon.

Not exactly sure what they are,

but I know all true robbers...

Jeez!

Don't do that!

What's that?

What is it, Blue?

Let's get out of here!

That was scary, Blue.

You're late.

Sorry about that.

Can you keep a secret?

Only me and Blue know.

Well, I can keep a secret

if a dog can.

He doesn't like

to be called that.

A dog?

We found a cave

in Gregory's Rock.

That's not a place

for whitefellas.

- You know it?

- Of course I know it.

That's Mukkine's Cave.

Only Bunaga men go there.

Manguny place, that is.

Dreamtime.

How do you know it's Dreamtime?

'Cause I've been there.

On Walkabout.

Is walking about hard?

I mean, all that walking...

Don't be daft. I didn't walk.

I took me ute.

Well, did you notice anything

strange in the cave?

What did you see?

There was a white stone

in the pool.

I tried to get it,

but Blue started barking

at something fierce,

something I couldn't see.

What?

That's not very good.

What do you know of Mukkine?

Nothing.

Mukkine was a great ngarluma,

a magic man.

Many years ago,

he shot this humbug constable

who chained all of Mukkine's

mob by their necks

and pegged them to this tree.

Mukkine shot him dead.

Plenty of coppers came from

all over just to kill Mukkine.

But Mukkine made fools

of all of those coppers.

They needed a blackfella

to track a blackfella,

and they got one.

Parker Knight from Roebourne.

Parker Knight, he shot Mukkine,

but you can't kill a Maban man

unless you take his spirit.

So as Mukkine lay bleeding,

he put his spirit

into that water,

into Yirramala pool,

in that cave.

That's what Blue saw

and was barking at.

Mukkine's spirit.

I tell you true.

That white stone

that you found in the pool,

that's Mukkine's stone.

That holds his power.

A weapon, it is.

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