Bootoolgah the Crane and Goonur the Kangaroo Rat, the Fire Makers

Catherine "Katie" Langloh Parker (1856 1940) was born at Australia and lived in New South Wales. She is well-known for her recording the folk stories of the Aboriginal people. Her collection was one of the first attempts of researching Aboriginal people's folk, beliefs and short stories of north-west New South Wales. She is best known by her books such as "Australian Legendary Tales", "Tales of the Dreamtime", "Wise Women of the Dreamtime" and other.
An ancient Australian legend will retail you about two innovators which could somehow to find out the secret of fire. Probably it will be strange and hard to imagine the mutual life of crane and rat but the legend doesn't lie. Bootoolgah the Crane and the kangaroo rat were married and there was no fire in their country but some day the miracle happened when Bootoolgah could attain the a faint spark rubbing two pieces of wood. In whole they didn't need it much but if you want to know what happened to these two fire makers later read the story till the end. 

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