Fairy Tales Told in the Bush

“EACH WALL WAS COVERED WITH SHELVES, AND EACH SHELF WAS FULL OF BOOKS.”

FAIRY TALES TOLD IN THE BUSH
By SISTER AGNES
LONDON: ELLIOT STOCK 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C.


Of these Fairy Tales told to children in the Australian bush , “The Magic Gun” and “The Underground River,” are original, but the others have been brought from the old country, not in book form, but in the memory of a lover of fairies and children.
“The Origin of the Yarra Yarra” was told to the writer by old King Barak, the last King of the Yarra tribe, a few days before his death.
These tales, as told here, charmed the writer in the “Sixties” when Melbourne was a place of bush and swamp. They now charm little slum children in the so-called “slum parts” of the city of Melbourne, “The Palace of Truth” and “The Magic Gun” being always asked for when stories are to be told.