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Following the Equator
Part 3

CHAPTER XXIX
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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.
We had a glimpse of the museum, by courtesy of the American gentleman who is curator of it.

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.
The first American marsupials were Stephen Girard, Mr.Aston and the opossum; the principal marsupials of the Southern Hemisphere are Mr.
Rhodes, and the kangaroo.

I, myself, am the latest marsupial.

Also, I might boast that I have the largest pocket of them all.


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