A True Story From Australia :—Anew chum was travelling by ccaeh from Deniliquin a few days ago, and noticing the driver hanging one of the mail-bags on a tree with no house in sight, asked who came for the bag. Taking his inquirer’s exact measure at a glance, the driver explained that tame kangaroos were trained to coma for the bag. “ There’s one writing now,” he said, pointing ahead to where a kangaroo sat iu the shade of a myall. When as close as he considered safe for the joke the driver yelled, “No mail for you to-day, old man; you needn’t wait any longer,” at the same time cracking his whip to the horses. The kangaroo at once left in search of another umbrella tree. “ Wonderful !” was the passenger’s exclamation. “ Why, he understands English perfectly.” After all, one must travel through a new country—on the box seat, for choice —if he would know all its marvels.
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Lake County Press, Issue 695, 13 February 1896, Page 7
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