. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. vvas in store for me and Monday. Our parting was out of tliequestion ; we would both rather have parted from our attempted to return to our relative rank, but we had lived so longin a kind of liberty and equality, that we could never resume ourgrades. The of nature remained uppermost with us bjoth, andMonday still watched over and tended me like Dominie Sampson THE KANGAROOS. 639 with the boy Harry Bertram ; go where I would, he followed with theJogged pertinacity of Tom Pipes ; nnd do whnt 1 might, he interferedwith
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. vvas in store for me and Monday. Our parting was out of tliequestion ; we would both rather have parted from our attempted to return to our relative rank, but we had lived so longin a kind of liberty and equality, that we could never resume ourgrades. The of nature remained uppermost with us bjoth, andMonday still watched over and tended me like Dominie Sampson THE KANGAROOS. 639 with the boy Harry Bertram ; go where I would, he followed with theJogged pertinacity of Tom Pipes ; nnd do whnt 1 might, he interferedwith the resolute vigour of John Dory in Wild Oats. This dis-position involved us daily, nay, hourly, in the most embarrassing cir-cumstances ; and how the connexion might have terminated I knownot, if it had not been speedily dissc>lved in a very unexpected morning poor Monday was found on his bed in a sort of con-vulsion, which barely enabled him to grasp my hand, and to falter out,Good-bye, I am go—going—back—to a state of A Good Action meets its own Reward. THE KANGAROOS. A FABLE.* A PAIR of married kangaroos (The case is oft a human one too)Were greatly puzzled once to choose A trade to put their eldest son to,—A little brisk and busy chap. As all the little just then are,About some two months off the lip ;— Theyre not so long in arms as men are. A twist in each parental muzzleBetrayd the hardship of the puzzle — So much the flavour of lifes cupIs framed by early wrong or right,And kangaroos we know are quite Dependent on their rearing question, with its ins and outs,Was intricate and full of doubts ; * Comic Annual, 1830 64C THE KANGAROOS. And yet they had no squeamish caringtFor trades unfit or fit for gentry,Such notion never had an entry, For they had no armorial theyre not the last on earthThat mi.^ht indulge in pride of birth ; Whoeer has seen their infant youngBob in and out their mothers pokes. Would own, w
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