Excerpt from The Wings of Silence: An Australian Tale But even as he turned in his stride Murninnie saw a strange and wonderful sight. The great beast parted in the middle, and the under part of him stood still while the upper part advanced a few feet; then came a noise, fire and smoke belched forth from the Upper part, and, lo! When she looked again the beast was whole, and coming towards her, and Kalkari lay face downwards on the sand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.