At last the white boss came over. “Stop all that bawling, gin.” He said as his eyes gorged on her black breasts. He stepped inside the humpy

‘ We’ve decided to look after the picaninny here until this black man is found. We don’t know where he is, there’s no tracks, but he’ll come back for you.” The boss bent down and picked up the black child. Birra wong reached up for the picaninny but was scalded by the hot eyes of the white man. The white man knelt on one knee and with his teeth set rubbed and palmed at the girls breasts and ground at her mouth with his hard mouth. Tears flooded her face and like a soft eyed rabbit in a trap, waited in terror for the huge man to do what he would do. But instead he struck her violently and she sank crumpled to the floor and her swollen lips trembled over the words of her totem song. “Murrang Murrang Bin- dalla Bindalla.” She keened softly with the tide of her breath, her whole life lost and gone.