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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 218, 14 September 1908, Page 8

Tho kangaroo vhich was presented to the company of the ffegship Connecticut in Sydney has not had a long reign. Since ihe kangaroo was added to the family establishment on the warship the bear had grown mopish and sullen. He would hang about by , .•limself for hours at a time glancing \furtively at the kangaroo. Eventually he waited imtil none of the sailors were about, and in a moment he suddenly pounced on her, squeezed her to his breast in one long, last, loving embrace, and that was the end of the present of the Sydney people to the raen of the flagship,