In the sunshine-country Australia, very far up in the country far away from the ocean there lives a little girl called Yuluwirree.
Yuluwirree is neither thin nor fat.
Her hair's chocolate-brown and the eyes black as coal.
In school she wears a light-blue, checkered frock just like the other girls.
At home most often she has on shorts and a t-shirt.
Her harmonious name originiated from the aborigines- yellow, red, green and blue- meaning with our word:
Rainbow.
In other words the vault of heaven was robed with a magnificient rainbow when she was borne into this world.
Her daddy calls her his Rainbow-girl and sometimes Unruly-girl- especially when she's not able to keep still, running in and out.
Then daddy says he becomes tired just by looking at her.
She halts for a minute or so.
Then she disappears as a tornado.
Yuluwirree lives with her daddy and mum in a peculiar wooden house.
On top of it there's corrugated iron.
When it rains there's no way to chat inside the house.
So extremely high is the rain's pounding on this unusual roof.
The people inside stop and listen when it rains.
Gigantic drops fall heavily down on the corrugated iron which sings- ding, dong, ding, dong- when they touch.
This Yuluwirree finds amuzing but it rains very seldom in the sunshine-country.
It's almost a major event each time it rains and then everybody becomes glad.
Daddy says that the rain brings money to his pockets.
Yuluwirre doesn´t really understand that, but she doesn´t care because when daddy's happy everything is good.
Yuluwirree's daddy and mama are farmers who work hard.
The family devides the farm along with their live-stock and the animals in the forest;
kangaroos, lizards, anteaters, foxes, rabbits and snakes.
Then there are insects, like flies, spiders and ants running everywhere in the nature.
The grain doesn't grow in the fields unless it gets water.
Neither do the trees and flowers.
Sometimes Yuluwirre's daddy looks into the sky hoping to see a grey cloud, a lot of them, best them being black, because then rain might be coming soon and then the water in the preserve-lagoon will grow.
In this warm country the sun shines almost every day of the year.
There's no need for a jumper or a jacket but during the coldest weeks.
Then the horses get blankets on their backs just to prevent them becoming cold.
The horse stays outdoors- in the winter- and summertime- just as other beasts on the farm.
II. A Kangaroo Rat on the Roof
Yuluwirree's farm is surrounded with grasslands, fields and heights overgrown with wood.
In the troll-trees colourful parrots make their homes.
The most beautiful of them wave bright-red wings og are called redwing-parrots.
Around there kangaroo-rats and koala-bears are also to be found.
Kangaroo-rats always travel at night or after dusk.
They are alike monkeys and cats in size.
A brownish kangaroo-rat is a regular guest at the farm.
The kangaroo-rat appears in the evening and runs on the roof.
Then the noise becomes so great that the roof seems about to tumble down.
Everyone knows who's up there and then Yuluwirree hurries out.
She puts a piece of an apple on a stick and hands it up toward the rat where it sits in a tree.
On some occasions she uses her alluring voice:
"Come on down, come on down, my long-tailed kangaroo-rat.
Have a bite!"
Then the kangaroo-rat cheers up.
Smells the scent of the apple.
Climbs down slowly.
Weaves the tail around a thin twist and takes a bite each time.
Puts it between its front paws and munches.
Yuluwirree tries to talk to the kangaroo-rat and thus alluring her to come closer, but it doesn't say much, cocks the ears, but doesn't like to be patted.
Has only interest in the food.
Nevertheless it always forgets to thank for the meal!
In the twilight after work in the afternoon the family sits down out on the verandah and chats about the day's events.
Sometimes the mosquitos become so annoying that they had to flee inside.
One doesn't notice it easily when they are biting, just for the small red spot that appears on the skin from where there's an itch for many days.
Mum puts a few drops of tea-tree-oil on the spot.
In its succesion the itch disappears.
Yuluwirre finds it interesting when mum and dad tell her about some mysterious and amuzing phenomena which she has never seen.
The ocean, snow and sledges just to name a few.
Mum shows her pictures or sometimes she draws these phenomena.
Then Yuluwirree finds it easier to understand them.
When the night comes over, it´s exactly like a black carpet's been laid over nature.
Only the sparkling stars on the vault ot the heaven bring some light through the thick pitching dark.
III. Erik the Red Enters the Story
When entering the house one first comes into a large hall which gets divided in two with an oven and a low barrel, a container of fire-wood.
The barrel and oven lie open before the eyes of the newcomer.
The kitchen is to the left and the livingroom the right.
Out from the livingroom there's a small room where the parents sleep.
Another small room is by the outdoor where Yuluwirrie sleeps.
Instead of doors in these rooms there are movable colourful curtains.
Above the beds there are white mosquito-nets.
In a projection in the kitchen there is a shower-room, a mirror and a basin.
A lantern hangs in the entrance because an outdoor wc is in the vicinity.
Once mum was working in the kitchen.
She got this strange feeling someone was staring at her.
Had a tiny mouse creeped inside?
You couldn't leave a bite of food anywhere, then the mice smelled it and came crawling in.
But there was no mouse to be found this time.
To her sheer dismay mum spotted a poisonous snake that had nestled quietly amongst cans and glasses on one of the shelves.
Mum didn't know what to do.
"From where did you actually come?"
The snake looked at her calmly, just as it were saying:
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