. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ching off a rapid mountain creek, which was hemmed in by belts of dog-woodscrub and flowering lightwoods, and bore the title of Wild Dog Creek, and it wasfrom this gully that we were, I believe without exception, fortunate in returning tocamp with at least a wombat, and sometimes a wallaby as well. Thus, encouragedby success in the past, we again sought the same locaUty and once more were favouredby fortune, for my dog—a smooth-haired collie—very soon struck the scent of awombat, followed, and worried the animal with such pe
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. ching off a rapid mountain creek, which was hemmed in by belts of dog-woodscrub and flowering lightwoods, and bore the title of Wild Dog Creek, and it wasfrom this gully that we were, I believe without exception, fortunate in returning tocamp with at least a wombat, and sometimes a wallaby as well. Thus, encouragedby success in the past, we again sought the same locaUty and once more were favouredby fortune, for my dog—a smooth-haired collie—very soon struck the scent of awombat, followed, and worried the animal with such persistence that it at length tookrefuge in the gigantic hollow of a fallen mesmate tree, levelled by the violence of stormand tempest or the effect of old age and decaying roots. This position proved soinvincible, that the dogs most strenuous attempts to dislodge the wombat were quiteunavailing. Determined to possess ourselves of game so nearly within om* reach, weset to work in the following manner: Striking a match and holding it as far into the The Wombat 307. WOMBATS HOLE
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