The Kangaroo.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 49, 5 December 1901, Page 18

The Kangaroo.

It teems that the kangaroo has been changing his habits in a very radical way of late. The change would seem to be coincident with the performance of the ' old man ' boxing kangaroo. But at any rate we are informed by an American writer who knows every - and a good deal besidep, 1 Beginning with the laws which keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with Borne precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing- horaes.' 'On his native heath,' t-ays this trans-Pacific know-all, ' the kangaroo jumps like a flish for the hunter's chest and tries to crush it in with ht* fore-feet. To prevent this each man wean across his breast a two or three-inch thick matting. Armed with a spear, with a club attachment at the other end, they ride upon a swift horsO into a herd. With the agility and equipoise of circus riders, they

stand erect upon their horses and use their spears and clubs. The kangaroo is able to jump clear over a horse.'