Part 1 (2/2)
The irl of her sad position, which, in her wonder at talking with the Kangaroo, had been quite forgotten for a little while She beca, her thoughts went back to her parents She longed to be with them to be kissed and cuddled, and her blue eyes filled with tears
”Your eyes just now re dew on the?”
”I was thinking,” said Dot
”Oh! don't think!” pleaded the Kangaroo; ”I never do irl ”What do you do instead?”
she asked
”I always juaroo, and she proain to her position in front of the child, she added, ”and that's why I never have a headache”
”Dear Kangaroo,” said Dot, ”do you knohere I can get some water? I'm very thirsty!”
”Of course you are,” said her friend; ”everyone is at sundown I'ish way off, so we had better start at once”
Little Dot got up with an effort After her long run and fatigue, she was very stiff, and her little legs were so tired and weak, that after a few steps she staggered and fell
The Kangaroo looked at the child compassionately ”Poor little Huood, and, for the life ofwithout a tail The water-hole is a good way off,” she added, with a sigh, as she looked down at Dot, lying on the ground, and she was very puzzled what to do
But suddenly she brightened up ”I have an idea,” she said joyfully
”Just step into my pouch, and I'll hop you down to the water-hole in less time than it takes a locust to shrill”
Ti, and found herself in the cosiest, softest little bag iaroo seemed overjoyed, when Dot was comfortably settled in her pouch ”I feel as if I had ain!” she exclailed scrub, over stones and bushes, over dry water-courses and great fallen trees And all Dot felt was a gentle rocking motion, and a fresh breeze in her face, which :--
If you want to go quick, I will tell you a trick For the bush, where there isn't a train
With a hulla-buloo, Hail a big kangaroo-- But be sure that your weight she'll sustain-- Then with hop, and with skip, She will take you a trip With the speed of the very best steed; And, this is a truth for which I can vouch, There's no carriage can equal a kangaroo's pouch
Oh! where is a friend so strong and true As a dear big, bounding kangaroo?
”Good bye! Good bye!”
The lizards all cry, Each drying its eyes with its tail
”Adieu! Adieu!
Dear kangaroo!”
The scared little grasshoppers wail
”They're going express To a distant address,”
Says the bandicoot, ready to scoot; And your path is well cleared for your progress, I vouch, When you ride through the bush in a kangaroo's pouch
Oh! where is a friend so strong and true As a dear big, bounding kangaroo?