THE KANGAROO.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 131, 1 September 1871, Page 6

THE KANGAROO.

BV JOSH HILMNGS.

The kangaroo is an overgrown monkey. They are fello-eirizeus of Afrika, and spend ra >st ov their lezzure moments on foot, /hey have four legs, l)ut their fore legs ain't ov muteh use to them ; they do most ov their acktual biznesa with their hind legs. They travel a good deal az a frog duz—on the jump. Kangaroos are very valuabel in their plase, and Afrika iz the plase for them. I hav thought if the whole ov Afrika had been planted with kangaroos, and none ov it with other pee pie, it would hav been full as good a crop to know what to do with. Kangaroos live upon roots, gras, and herbs, and can out-jump ennythiug in the wilderness, in the face they resemble the deer, but in the length of ov their tails they resemble a whole herd of deer. A kangaroo's tail iz a living kuriosity; in its general habits it looks and aks like rat's tail, bat in size you must multiply it by six thousand and upwards. But a kangaroo's tail don't bother me enny more than a kite's tail duz; a bob-tailed kangaroo on the jump would akt just as a bob-tailed kite duz in the air. Whenever i cum across enny thing in natur that i kant explain, then i kno at once that it iz all rite, for natur never made enny blunders in the animals ; if she has failed enny where it iz in man. JSatur gav man reason, and showed him how to use it, but mau luvs to open the throttle-valve and let reason hum. This ackounts for his running oph from the track so often and bust up. 1 ik'ver knu a kmgaroo tew oust up.