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A Legend of the Flowers
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the leaves, and the little grey birds called Dulloorah, who bring the wahlerh, or liquid manna.
And when they come the Daens say: "A time of drought is here, a great drought on all the land. Few are the flowers anywhere, and the grass-seed has gone. But goonbean and wahlerh will go, and the drought will go, and then the flowers and the bees will come again, for so it has always been since the wirreenuns brought the blossoms from Bullimah."
