Why the Kookaburra Laughs
  

In The painting can bee seen:

Left:  All the birds and animals, fish and insects being created by Yindingie.
Middle Bottom:  The tree Frog about to hide in the log of wood.
Middle: The Snake about to grab and hold onto his own tail with the Kookaburra about to laugh as the snake grabs his own tail.
Right:  All the other Kookaburra's laugh at the Snake catching and hanging onto his tale.

  
The Story

The Aboriginal myth is that there was a God named Yindingie who was the maker of all animals and birds.

At the commencement of time when Yindingie was making the birds, they were not willing to learn, and seemed to be very hard to please, not like the other animals, fish and insects.

Some of the birds were content to practice their songs while building their nests, but others would quarrel with their neighbours over any little thing.

One of the birds, the Kookaburra were originally never happy.  Although he was very good looking bird with a very strong beak and wonderful eyesight, he was upset he was not born with a very fine voice like the  Magpie or Butcher-Bird.

It was at this time a few of the other bush creatures were beginning to misbehave.  Snake for instance, had decided that Frog would be good to eat, so he set off after him.

Poor little Frog hopped away as fast as he could, but he knew Snake would catch him unless he could hid.  He hid under the log.  As Snake toured around the log, he saw movement in the grass and he pounced on the movement and held on.

And that was when the Kookaburra burst out laughing!  He laughed and Laughed, and soon the bush land was filled with a very merry sound.  The rest of his family flew up, and when they found why Kookaburra was laughing, they too burst into laughter - for what had happened, Kookaburra had see the little Frog hop up onto the top of the stump and then down a hole in it.  And all Snake had caught was his own tail wrapped around the log!

And that's why the Kookaburra still laughs today.

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