said Nqong from his bath in the blue gums . ` Say that again and I 'll whistle up Dingo and run your hind legs off . ' ` No , ' said the Kangaroo . ' I must apologise . Legs are legs , and you need n't alter 'em so far as I am concerned . I only meant to explain to Your Lordliness that I 've had nothing to eat since morning , and I 'm very empty indeed . ' ` Yes , ' said Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo , -- ' I am just in the same situation . I 've made him different from all other animals ; but what may I have for my tea ? ' Then said Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan , ` Come and ask me about it tomorrow , because I 'm going to wash . ' So they were left in the middle of Australia , Old Man Kangaroo and Yellow-Dog Dingo , and each said , ` That 's your fault . ' THIS is the mouth-filling song Of the race that was run by a Boomer , Run in a single burst -- only event of its kind -- Started by big God Nqong from Warrigaborrigarooma , Old Man Kangaroo first : Yellow-Dog Dingo behind . Kangaroo bounded away , His back-legs working like pistons -- Bounded from morning till dark , Twenty-five feet to a bound . Yellow-Dog Dingo lay Like a yellow cloud in the distance -- Much too busy to bark . My ! but they covered the ground ! Nobody knows where they went , Or followed the track that they flew in , For that Continent Had n't been given a name . They ran thirty degrees , From Torres Straits to the Leeuwin -LRB- Look at the Atlas , please -RRB- , And they ran back as they came . S'posing you could trot From Adelaide to the Pacific , For an afternoon 's run Half what these gentlemen did You would feel rather hot , But your legs would develop terrific -- Yes , my importunate son , You 'd be a Marvellous Kid ! THE BEGINNING OF THE ARMADILLOS THIS , O Best Beloved , is another story of the High and Far-Off Times . In the very middle of those times was a Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog , and he lived on the banks of the turbid Amazon , eating shelly snails and things .
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