Show PRETTY MYTHS OF BUSHMEN Real Poetry In Legends Handed Down Among the Aborigines of Australia Fish were not always fish and did not always stay under water accordIng according accord- accord Ing lag to the story of the blacks of th the Australian bu bush h. h They say that fishes fishes- once lived hived on land and went hunting just as other people do One day the fishes were were- gathered together In a camp near a river the the- tory story goes It was very cold and th the tb fishes were huddled around a fire tryIng tryIng try- try Ing lug to get warm Suddenly a great wind came up ane anc and blew lew both the fishes fishes- and the fire Into the water The fishes Just crowded around the fire under the waves and kept warm That Is Is is how the fish first came to stay In rivers and streams the bushmen say They add that the fire Is still under the water water wa wa- ter and that Is why It Is always warmer warm wann er under water on a cold day than than- It ItIs ItIs itis Is on land They also say that the the- C crow once owned all the fire there wason wason wason was- was on earth and that he kept It In a baOne bag ba- One day It dropped from his bill and anft j ja a sparrow hawk saw It fall He dove doye after It and arid grabbed the bag When 11 he flew fiew away away the crow gave ga chase and overtook him Time The two birds fought and In the the fire fell out of the bag and set the grass and leave AI ablaze The crow tried In vain to prevent the spread of the flames by hy stamping on them time and rolling in them but the fire spread over the earth earth- 1 and everybody got some To this timis day the crow Is black from rolling roiling on th the the- burned grass they say |