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Show HUNTING THE KANGAROO. The Grotesque flight of a Benl tpMU Ilia Urmvlty of a H outer. The rest of the herd immediately insde off in our direction; but instead of scattering scat-tering pellmell as other wild animals would have done under like circumstances, circumstan-ces, these queer denizens of a qoeer country fell into line and departed in I regular Indian tile, the big old doe leading lead-ing the way, and the smallest diminutive diminu-tive pickaninnies bringing up the rear. The doe covered the ground with tremendous tre-mendous leisurely hops, holding her foro paws before her iu a mincing way that was very comical. The smaller animals, each an exact though diminutive counterpart of the i leader, followed iu gradually diminish- : ing perspective, every little beggar hoi-piug hoi-piug just a little more rapidly than the one before him, until Uie fast flying legs of the last puny fellow at the end of the line were blurred like the spokes of a i wheel in rapid motion. The effect of this extraordinary procession proces-sion was to my unaccustomed eyes so altogether ludicrous and absurd that 1 nearly lost my shot in an uncontrollable burst of latightor. As it was I might just us well have had my laugh out to the end, for although 1 let the old doe have both barrels full in the flank as she passed me at twenty yards' distance she ( never even faltered in her course, and j had quite disappeared in the scrub, with all her numerous progeny at her heels, I before 1 had time to replace the empty cartridges. ! The No. 3 shot in all probability had : little more effect upon her tough hide j than bo many grains of sand. Nevertho- ' less, it might perhaps have brought her down if I had aimed at the head, for one pellet penetrating the brain through the eye would have been sufficient. But the motion was so eccentric and perplexing that this would have been a very risky sliot, and I preferred the chance of stunning stun-ning her by a direct double charge full in the body to the almost absolute certainty cer-tainty of missing her altogether by attempting at-tempting the more difficult shot Birgo Harrison in Scribner's. |