 IN the days when Bootoolgah, the crane, married Goonur, the kangaroo rat, there was no fire in their country. They had to eat their food raw or just dry it in the sun. One day when Bootoolgah was rubbing two pieces of wood together, he saw a faint spark...  The Earth and Its Life - 第141页作者：A. Waddingham Seers - 1922 - 207 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | Roland Burrage Dixon - 1916 - 494 页
...all people had to eat their food raw or dried in the sun; but one day, when the crane, Bootoolgah, was rubbing two pieces of wood together, he saw a faint spark and a slight smoke, whereupon he called out to Goonur, the kangaroo-rat, "See, smoke comes when I rub... | |
 | Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch - 1916 - 494 页
...all people had to eat their food raw or dried in the sun; but one day, when the crane, Bootoolgah, was rubbing two pieces of wood together, he saw a faint spark and a slight smoke, whereupon he called out to Goonur, the kangaroo-rat, "See, smoke comes when I rub... | |
 | Margaret Elizabeth Wells - 1917 - 208 页
...in the country. They had to eat the-ir food raw or just dry it in the sun. One day, when Bootoolgah was rubbing two pieces of wood together, he saw a faint spark fly out and then a little smoke. " Look," he said to Goonur, " see what happens when I rub these two sticks together!... | |
 | A. Waddingham Seers - 1922 - 216 页
...and thereby incurred the jealous anger and vengeance of the Father of the Gods. As told by ^Eschylus, it is a highly civilized rendering of some much more...make fire. They determined to keep the knowledge to themselves, but suspicion arose as to the secret art by which they made their food more palatable than... | |
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