Aborigine fish trap in Australia
With Yum and Dong
now friends and helping each other with their children, Dum and Grunt also went
out hunting together.
The women decided
that they would collect fruit and shellfish and Dum and Grunt would catch
animals and birds and even fish if they could work how to snare them.
As they wandered
on the beach the men found the freshwater streams from the hills entering the
sea would slow up as the sea pushed them back upstream again.
Dum suddenly had
an idea to make a pond where the stream entered the sea and this might leave
any fish in the shallows stranded in the pond when the tide went out.
They built a rock
and pebble wall that would be under the sea at high tide but would retain the
fresh water when the tide went out until it flowed over the wall.
They were amazed
to find so many fish and other creatures trying to escape when the tide went
out and they went home that night grinning at their women with a haul of fish
knowing they would get more than a good feed that night.
Necessity is the mother of invention, and Dum seems to be the type that will make every effort to please his woman and reap the rewards. I suspect there is a bit of biographical input into his character! ;-)
ReplyDeleteLike Lizzi, I'm delighted that you can continue a story with just six sentences. That would be a wonderful writing challenge for anyone to undertake. Basically they are six-sentence chapters! I'm planning a six-sentence concept for A-Z this year. Are you going to do A-Z? You should!