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 K.’s just then are—

About some two months off the lap,—

They’re not so long in arms as men are.

A twist in each parental muzzle