Doolie: Feeling the blood where he shaves.
Lifting his hat to scratch his hair.
Showing his teeth as he thinks of the north wind.
A flock of chicken hawks,
crying out as they fly;
crying as they skim over a man's head.

(There is a noise of birds. Bullie turns to see what they are, but they have passed on. It is Jimmie he sees.)

Jimmie: You know who it was that took your house?

Bullie: It was light air and heavy air. The bloke from the Government told you.

Jimmie: We can laugh about it with the Professor bloke and the fellow from the Gover'ment. But even Doolie knows who it was took your house. She says, the thunder sticks to this bloke. I shut her up because it's not her business. But she's right. It was the Wongar spirit took your house away. It was the Thunder man.

(The naming of this ancient name has an effect on Bullie. Jimmie continues without malice.)

I'm just telling you.

Jimmie: It's light air and heavy.

(Pause. With less confidence.)

There's no reason any Wongar bloke ought to get on my hammer.

Jimmie: No? Listen, you know-all bugger! I saw the Thunder man come in off the sea and he picked up your house in his hand like a flapping bloody chicken. And he wrings its neck and chucks it away. And that's the end of your house. But it ain't the end of mine, and it ain't the end of Barrie's. And he didn't take Mr. Burton's. But yours was the one he took.

Stephen "Baamba" Albert as Dallie, with Heath Bergersen as Bullie