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THE BONES OF DJULUNG
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itself to the earth before her, and she stretched out her hand and picked some of its leaves and flowers and gave them to the king.

‘The maiden who can work such wonders is fitted to be the wife of the greatest chief,’ he said, and so he married her, and took her with him across the sea to his own home, where they lived happy for ever after.

From Folk Lore,’ by A. F. Mackenzie.

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