Show letter from melbourne melbo rne continued from april esth but the greatest attraction of fill all 1 is pr probably 0 bably the little monkeys those imitators of human actions crowds gather in front of the monkey houses and watch them for an hour at a time it is the delight of the children to throw filberts generally into the cage calan e and then see the scramble and finally to watch the successful monkey as he squats on his haunches holds the nut in both hands draws his lips back disclosing his teeth and proceed to extract tho the kernel from the shell and then sit there with a supplicating cat in look in his almost human eyes until somo some one takes pity on him and tosses another nut into him but what is the author of that peculiar noise so somewhat resembling sem bling a laugh which comes from a neighboring tree see that brown colored bird with a big M body no tail to speak of an extremely eitrem ely large beak and a pair of twin twinkling klin eyes sitting g I 1 on that limb with his beak slightly open so that lie appears to be smiling and his eyes seeming 0 to sparkle with humont humour well that is the creature that made that noise and he is known as the killaugh laughing jackass he is an australian bird the birds and animals which are found in australia or rather I 1 should say some soine of them are very peculiar creatures and seem to bo be the result of a good dealoe deal of mixture florin for instance there is tho the orni or in other words the blackmann blackmans Black Blacki mans nans devil the latter is the australian lia n nickname nick name for the animal he has the body of a water rat the bill of a duck and liis his feet are partly webbed after you have been all over the zoland zoo and have seen all there is to see you can finish your visit by a ride on the elephant for throe three pence so if you ever visit Al melbourne elbourne dont forget to go to the zoo for it will only cost you a shilling n or if 11 you want to see the show for nothing you can wait for sunday to come when the gates are thrown wit open and all are admitted free of charge so much for the zoo now as a finishing touch let me ask you if you got a better ion of Af melbourne elbourne than you had before if it a bigger place and of more importance than most people e in utah think and if you dont think it is a wonderful city considering 0 that less than sixty five years ago ago za the greater portion of its site was covered with a dense forest or I 1 bush and white men were few and far between II melbourne elbourne has grown wonderfully and progressed very rapidly and the victorian people we ire justly proud of their metropolis Al may aythey they not have occasion to feel otherwise the writer has oten ot en here less than two years but in that time lie ho has learned tu to like 11 melbourne elbourne and lie he might say with a slight C allowance the people pl of Af melbourne elbourne also A I 1 K carr |