Part 3 by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link book Part 3 7/12 No, in Hobart all the aspects are tidy, and all a comfort to the eye; the modestest cottage looks combed and brushed, and has its vines, its flowers, its neat fence, its neat gate, its comely cat asleep on the window ledge. It has samples of half-a-dozen different kinds of marsupials--[A marsupial is a plantigrade vertebrate whose specialty is its pocket. In some countries it is extinct, in the others it is rare. I, myself, am the latest marsupial. Also, I might boast that I have the largest pocket of them all. |