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fence with " sewells," which we used when deer-shooting 

 in the forests at home. These " sewells " are long lines 

 of packthread, with two white feathers tied crosswise on 

 the line, about a yard apart, strung up a yard or four feet 

 from the ground on sticks. I never knew a fallow-deer 

 face them. I think we might have used them with 

 good success in driving kangaroo; but until the game 

 becomes scarce and more valuable, the hunter will rarely 

 go out of the old-fashioned routine to procure it. Al- 

 though the kangaroos feed off the ground, they do not 

 always appear to use the fore paws as a support, but 

 crouch down. I have only now and then observed 

 them browsing off the trees in a standing position, and 

 I wonder we do not oftener see them feeding in this 

 manner, for which their upright posture and fore-arms 

 seem peculiarly adapted. "When in confinement, they 

 will eat bread, of which they seem very fond, holding it 

 in their fore paws, and nibbling it like a squirrel. They 

 are very subject, in the bush, to tape-worms, and I 

 have taken dozens out of the stomach of one which I 

 have been cutting open. Like the sheep, they can go a 

 long time without water, and I never could detect them 

 frequenting any particular water-holes at night for the 

 purpose of drinking. I have known their camping-places 

 on some of the plains miles away from any water-hob. 

 They appear to keep much in the neighbourhood of cattle. 

 The kangaroo is altogether a very domestic, interesting, 

 inoffensive animal, and I often regretted that we had no 

 better or wilder substitute for the red deer in this country. 



