478 WILD ANIMALS. 



looking on, were evidently of a different stamp, and did not think 

 it necessary that their " sport " should be so highly spiced with 

 bravery or danger. 



However, the Marsupial Destruction Act is now virtually a dead 

 letter, and the animals are beginning to find out that there is still 

 plenty of room away from the squatters' territories where they 

 can exist unmolested, so it will doubtless be many a long day yet 

 before the entire race of kangaroos will be classed under the 

 heading of " animals that have been." 



