He was grey and he was woolly , and his pride was inordinate : he danced on a sandbank in the middle of Australia , and he went to the Big God Nqong . He went to Nqong at ten before dinner-time , saying , ` Make me different from all other animals ; make me popular and wonderfully run after by five this afternoon . ' Up jumped Nqong from his bath in the salt-pan and shouted , ` Yes , I will ! ' Nqong called Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- always hungry , dusty in the sunshine , and showed him Kangaroo . Nqong said , ` Dingo ! Wake up , Dingo ! Do you see that gentleman dancing on an ashpit ? He wants to be popular and very truly run after . Dingo , make him SO ! ' Up jumped Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- and said , ` What , that cat-rabbit ? ' Off ran Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- always hungry , grinning like a coal-scuttle , -- ran after Kangaroo . Off went the proud Kangaroo on his four little legs like a bunny . This , O Beloved of mine , ends the first part of the tale ! He ran through the desert ; he ran through the mountains ; he ran through the salt-pans ; he ran through the reed-beds ; he ran through the blue gums ; he ran through the spinifex ; he ran till his front legs ached . He had to ! Still ran Dingo -- Yellow-Dog Dingo -- always hungry , grinning like a rat-trap , never getting nearer , never getting farther , -- ran after Kangaroo . He had to ! Still ran Kangaroo -- Old Man Kangaroo . He ran through the ti-trees ; he ran through the mulga ; he ran through the long grass ; he ran through the short grass ; he ran through the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer ; he ran till his hind legs ached . He had to !
Still ran Dingo -- Yellow-Dog XXXXX -- hungrier and hungrier , grinning like a horse-collar , never getting nearer , never getting farther ; and they came to the Wollgong River .
Capricorn Dingo ashpit cat-rabbit dinner-time reed-beds salt-pan sandbank spinifex ti-trees