. The Wasp. A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art. ung, active and plump;the trailer was bald of ifur, decrepit, ema-ciated and blind! I made it my duty toplace a piece of bread, or a cracker in theirway, for many mornings following,but finallythrough force of circumstances I lost sightof them. Indication here plainly upheld a wonder-ful iutuitiveness, which in man would elicitlaudations to the sky. It was a moral lessonto humenity by a despised rat. Filial af-fection supplying the wants of its helplessand needy re


. The Wasp. A Saturday journal of illustration and comment, devoted to the discussion of public affairs, finance, society and art. ung, active and plump;the trailer was bald of ifur, decrepit, ema-ciated and blind! I made it my duty toplace a piece of bread, or a cracker in theirway, for many mornings following,but finallythrough force of circumstances I lost sightof them. Indication here plainly upheld a wonder-ful iutuitiveness, which in man would elicitlaudations to the sky. It was a moral lessonto humenity by a despised rat. Filial af-fection supplying the wants of its helplessand needy relative. I can preach an hourupon the moral, but for the intelligent,enough has been siiid. Nineteen hundredyears of pulpit preaching, has in this respectculminated in forcing our legislature to en-act compulsory measures, obliging the near-est relatives to care for the destitute andfeeble of their blood. The despised rat as-sumes it as a pleasurable and dutiful task. Here you have a love of kiud, liberality inbenefaction, afieetion, duty, charitv, and theidyllic perfection of humanity, unostenta-tiously personified by a The native rat of Australia is formed pre-cisely like a kangaroo, only smaller in size,differing in color only from the giant of itsfamily link, as the oriental gazelle of fourpounds does from the American full growndeer, or the pet black-and-tan to the con-firmed ratter of the same species. I found two of these rats, and from curi-osity placed them first in a box, then gavethem the liberty of the tent, and finally in-dulged their persistent endeavors to followme wherever I went. The moment I placeda hat upon my head, it was a signal for themto fly to my shoulder. Mining was my occu-pation then on the Lodden, not far from theGila plains. For reasons best known tothemselves, the moment I reached the mine,they would descend to the ground, amuhingthemselves by playing after the manner ofkittens; but they understood the hour forleaving off work, fully as well


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