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Graceys my sister. I like her. Shes not like the rest of the girls in town. She

doesnt chase after all the boys and play that game like. She could catch them all

right, dont you worry. Graceys the fastest girl across the ground youve ever seen.

(p.1)

You gotta watch out for the Moodagudda. He lives in the river. Hes a bad spirit.(p.2)

Oh, you dont see him. No, you feel him all around. He creeps up to you, surrounds

you. He confuses you, so you cant think, he makes you afraid, more scared than you

ever been. (p.3)

We said, how we sposed to know about the Aborigines? We didnt know what he

was talking about. This town has always been here. Same with the whites, same with

the blacks. (p.5)

You hear lots of stories at school and youre not sposed to believe theyre true. Butthe Moodaguddas real. I know. Ive seen him. Thats one of the things I got to tell

you about. (p.6)

My names Dougy. Im nobody much. (p.7)

Shes like a beautiful young horse, a black horse, trotting and galloping, enjoying

how fast she can go. (p.9)

People in our town were happy about it too, at first anyway They get a bit excited

about things like that in our town. (p.11)

I remember how happy Gracey was that afternoon, but it didnt last long. When they

got off that bus, every one of those kids was celebrating, white kids, black kids, it

didnt matter, but the next morning all the fun was washed out of the white kids. It

just didnt make sense that it all changed so quickly, over just one night. (p.16)

I didnt think I could have made up the words even for Gracey to understand what Id

seen, so the picture stays in my head now, just for me. And sometimes I think maybe

there are hundreds of other fantastic things in the rest of the world that Ill never know

about. (p.20)

But there was something strange about these crowds of people, something different

from the picture I had expected to see and it took a few minutes to work out what it

was. Then I realised. Mum and Raymond and Gracey and me were the only blacks in

the whole street. Everybody else I saw was white. (p.21)

I didnt believe him for a second. No blacks in our town were the boss of anything,

always white blokes. Thats just the way it was. (p.23)

Im going to play on this field one day. (p.26)

Im pretty dumb but I knew what that man was saying and it wasnt right. Raymondwouldnt steal anything from Lang Park. This place was special to him. He didnt rip

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scholarship so she can do better at school than us. Blacks get everything, whites get

nothing. She and Dad are getting fed up. (p. 55 56)

Hey, what about that old Moodagudda in the river. You watch out. Maybe hell be

the one comin to get you, so you dont get away. (p.59)

Gracey, I want you to escape. I nearly got away when I was young, but this place

sucked me back. It dont let many get away. (p.59)

Im scared of leaving what I know, Dougy. Scared of being the only black kid with

all those whites. Scared of being different. (p. 60-1)

Just as well the Moodagudda isnt around in the day time, cause if he wanted to stop

Gracey from getting away to that school, this would be his last chance. But I was

wrong about that. (p.62)

Of course, Mr Brodie tried to stop his daughter from riding motorbikes but shealways beat him. She could persuade a young man to do anything for her. (p.64)

This scholarship of Graceys is the best thing, the most important thing thats ever

happened in this town; even if half the bloody whites in this town dont want to know

about it. (p.65)

Of course, you know what that much water north of here means. A bit of flooding,

most likely. Wed better start sandbagging as soon as possible. And thats what most

people were doing when they found Melissa Brodie lying half-dead in the sandhills.

(p.67)

There was silence then for a minute and when I look back on it now, Im sure that up

till then no one standing in that group had thought for a second that Melissa Brodie

had been hit on the head by anyone. Up till then, it was just an accident. But after

those words, it became a crime. (p.69)

The sight and sound of these men raging around Seasame Street like a thunderstorm

was starting to bring people out of their houses to see what was happening. (p.74)

It was no use. The white men had forgotten why they had come now and the black

man had forgotten why he was holding the gun. They didnt care about JohnnyWarren anymore. (p.76)

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