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Yes, I'll tell you a story about what happened at Number 7 Bore on the south side of Wave Hill Station.

yuu ngu-rnangku yurrk kuya nyununy Number 7-ta kurlampa.

This is about my mother's mother and her father.

ngayiny jaju ngayiny jawiji.

My grandfather was working there.

ngayiny jawiji bin waruk.

They used to call him a boundary rider.

dei bin kal-im boundary-rider.

He used to look after the fences to make sure that the cattle couldn't get through.

partik waj-im-bat yu nou tai-im-ap garra ngaja bulok yanku jurru kuya.

He used to go all the way to Gordy Springs.

im-in oldei gu rait-ap langa Kilkil.

Then come back from there.

kam-bek burrum deya.

Gordy Springs, Number 7 then he would keep a check on the fences all the way to Number 17.

Kilkil, Number 7, kanimparra-k na partik luk-aran rai-ap langa Number 7 no yeah 17 Bore.

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when he was looking after the cattle at Number 7.

nyamu-yina karrwanani kip-im-ap bullock-walija Number 7-ta, ngayiny-ju-ma jawiji-lu-ma.

Well he would leave us early in the morning.

aaaa kuya-rni oldei rait ngu-ngantipa wanyjarni kaputkaput.

My grandmother used to look after me and my two brothers, Teddy Crow and Steven Long during the day.

ngayiny two brother an ngayu, ngu-ngantipa karrwanani ngayiny-ju-ma jaju-ngku-ma.

We used to stay there.

ngu-rnalu karrinyani.

He said to his wife "All right, I'm off to Gordy Springs now."

alrait kajirri ngu-rna yanana na karlarra.

"I saw some cattle going through there so I might only return late in the day."

+"ngu-rna nyanya bullock bin gu jurru deya maitbi-rna yanku purrinyjila wart-ma.

"Late in the day," he said to my jaju.

leit-bala ngu-rla marni jaju-wu-ma ngayiny-ku-ma.

He had no thoughts that she wouldn't be alive when he got back.

+"kata-yi-nga wanyji-rni karru, kuya.

My grandfather went west to work on the fences. He had lunch at Gordy Springs.

karlarra yani jawiji-ma ngayiny-ma pirrkappirrkap-ma naaaaa juny rait im-in hab-im mangarri Kilkil-la yala-ngka-rni laik dinner.

He returned from there late in the day.

aaaa purinyjirrila karlaniyin-ta wart yani.

As he came east, he say my two brothers playing around on the northside of the machinery including Lachlan and Browyn's father.

&karrawarra ngu-wuliny nyanya ngayiny-ma papa-kujarra-ma playing around nyawa kayinimpal machinery an jintapa-kari blanga Drangdrang kuya-ngku father for Bronwyn-ku.

She was looking after the three of us.

jirri-bala na ngu-ngantipa karrwanani.

My granny had cooked some damper.

ngayu-ma ngayiny jaju bin kuk-im mangarri, damper.

She left it up on top of the table ready for supper.

im-in lib-im kankula partaj table-la

Then she had gone back into the tent.

alrait kankarra walyak.

This was for a lunch time nap.

lunch-taim na nyawa-ma makin na.

I was asleep next to her.

ngayu-ma makin langa im wansaid.

I presumed my granny was alive and I had my hand over her shoulder. We slept on like that.

kata-yi-nga karra na wanyji lawara ngu-rna mani jaju-ma ngayiny-ma ngu-rnawula karrinyaaaaa ngayirra-ny.

My two brothers came running up.

ngayiny tubala brother bin kam-ap rarrarraj.

They scooped up some water.

ngawa ngu-wula lakap-karra mani.

I could hear the two of them talking.

ai bin hear-im-bat tubala jarrakap-kula.

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Then they went back.

gu-bek igin.

Talking about the tin cars.

rarraj-kaji kip-im-bat motika yu nou lid kuya-rra.

I went back to sleep with my granny and my grandfather returned.

eeee ngu-rna makin karrinya ngu-rnawula-nga ngayiny jawiji bin kam-ap na.

Well she was in the tent. My granny had a tent.

wal tent-ta im-in hab-im tent army tent ngayiny-ku-ma jaju-wu-ma.

The two of them opened it, went in and tried to wake her up, but she wouldn't wake up.

open-im mani ngu-wula, walyak yani, tuliny weik-im mani tuliny-karra weik-im-ap-karra lawara.

He started crying for her right there. I got up said to him, "What's wrong grandpa?" (and he replied) "I need to take you lot to the station."

yeah yala-ngka-rni lungkarra na ngayu-ma gedgedap nyampa-wu-ja jawiji najing na kuya ngu-rnanyjurra kangku wart na kayirra.

"Your granny has passed away."

+"lawara na jaju ngu-nta kuya.

He picked up the same horse he had been riding all day.

nyila-rni yawarta warrkuj mani ngu.

He put the bridle on again and the saddle.

bridle ngu wuyarni saddle ngu wuyarni

He took us on the horse late in the evening.

jalngak ngu-ngantipa kanya purrinyji-la kuya-ny-ja.

Heading north back to the old station.

kayirra gu-bek Jinparrak-jirri na.

He respectfully covered my granny with a blanket and tied up the tent flap to stop the dingos from getting in, then we left her right there.

&nyila-ma ngayiny-ma jaju-ma yala-ngka-rni malampurr mani jakap an tent tai-im-ap-karra parik na yala-ngka-rni.

He took us back to my mother.

ngu-ngantipa kanya ngayiny-ku na ngamayi-yu.

They heard him crying as we approached. Just like when I drew the roads on the map (talking about the canvas).

jawiiji-ma ngayiny-ma ngu-wula kurru karrinya lungkarra marlarluka-lu-ma nyila na nyamu-rnalu draw-im mani kurlarra-k ngurra.

The Number 7 road when they used to live on the road a long time ago.

Number 7 road nyamu-lu karrinyani ngurra larrpa.

The Mudburra mob exclaimed, "Hang on, someone's crying from up there."

kutini nyawa-ma ngaja nyawa lungkarra lungana ngana kangkayit kuya.

"Ah I'm all on my own now," said my grandfather.

+"ah lawara na ngu-rna ngayu-wariny, nyawa marni jawiji-ma ngayiny-ma.

"I brought the kids back," he said.

+"karu ngu-rnayina kangani wart-parla, kuya.

Yes.

yuu.

He was really crying, totally distraught.

lungkalungkarra.

My mother was churning butter so she hadn't heard the news.

ngayiny mother bin wok-in langa tarn-aran i don nou.

Afterwards she washed up in the evening, came to the camp and it was then that they let her know.

kankuliyit, abta waj-im pleit kaputa im-in kam-ap na jei bin let-im nou na.

That's all for my story now.

marntaj kuya-rni-warla, ngayiny-ma jarrakap-ma.

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The whitefellas didn't think to go and collect her body and bring it back. They didn't do that in the old days.

laik kartiya nomo bin wori about yu nou kaputa-la warrkuj bodi an teik-im-bak kuya yu nou najing larrpa-ma.

Her body remained there.

karrinya yala-ngka-rni.

It was Melva and Violet's husbands, two Jurlamas, who went back and buried her properly.

ngu-lu yani julajpan na kurlarra.

They were her classificatory nephews.

kurlarra kurlampa, nyanuny ngalawuny-walija, ngayiny-ku jaju init.

These blokes went to deal with her body.

murla-rra yani.

"We can't take her back because we don't have a car here. I guess we'll have to bury her right here.

*+"lawara kula-rlaa kangku, kula-rlaa kurrurij-jawung murla-ngka-rni wuyawu-rlaa marntaj nurt wuyawul-rlaa murla-ngka-rni.

They placed her in a grave right there then.

yala-ngka-rni ngu-lu wuyarni na grave-ma yala-ngka-rni.

Why did she die. Was she sick?

nyampa-wu-ja-rla i bin janga wayi?

I don't know.

ai don nou.

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She was well and working.

punyu-nginyi waruk karrinya.

Maybe she died of a heart attack.

onli maitbi heart attack-said na wen dei bin long-taim kuya.

Or maybe from a sorcerer.

maitbi ngumpit-nginyi. Yuu marntaj kuya-warla