Legacy.(Poem) From: Quadrant | Date: May 1, 2008| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2008 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

 
   Because his father was an initiate, my father learned things 
   that many people have forgotten: why you should sit and wait 
   for the elders to invite you into camp; that a good layer of river 
   clay will confound mosquitoes; how to make a bull-roarer and return a 
   boomerang; what brown snake, bush eggs and midden molluscs taste 
   like; where to dig up bardee grubs; how to catch yabbies and 
   goanna; why you should never walk through a willy-willy; where the 
   scar-trees are; that there is more than one good reason to burn 
   patterns on a message stick; and how to ...

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