254 THE ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG NATURALIST. 



eggs, insects, and birds. The young of those species which 

 are unprovided with the pouch, as soon as they are able to 

 walk, climb up on their mother's back and intertwine their 

 tails with hers, which she carries over her back for this 

 purpose. This instinct is perhaps more curious than that 

 which leads them to dart into their mother's protecting 

 pouch. 



Time was getting on ; it now became important for us 

 to reach the spot where the moles were; and l'Encuerado 

 predicted good sport there without firing off his gun. 



