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difficulty in detecting the differences between the two species the bush- 
man knows which is which at once by the method of bounding before 
they come near enough for other distinctions to be observed. 
Some tim.e ago there was a wallaby at the gardens that could not 
be kept in its proper place. It liked to roam the garden paths, and 
especially on a Sunday would it indulge its wandering propensities. 
Men and boys, and often women, too, would set up a wallaby chase as 
soon as they saw its well-known head peep up from some covering 
shrubs, and fine sport would ensue, over flowerbeds, through shrubberies, 
and anywhere, until they were baffled by the sudden but complete dis- 
appearance of the quarry. It never once occurred to them that a quiet 
looking wallaby watching them unconcernedly from a compound was the 
one they had lost, but the cunning animal had a dozen different secret 
entrances and exits to his home, and when he found the hunt too fierce 
he would elude everybody by disappearing down one of his burrows and 
re-appearing as a well-conducted denizen of the paddock with the other 
wallabies. He was rather a favorite in the gardens, although he did 
give an immense amount of extra work to the gardeners on a Monday 
morning, and was not at all particular whether he led them a dance or 
not. One day after a big run he got into the Cape Barren Goose’s 
enclosure, and from there, he must have sprung over to the eagles’ 
paddock. One of the keepers heard a great sound of revelry among 
these excitable birds, and went to investigate. They were all clustered 
around what a very short time before was this wallaby, but what now 
proved to be some hair and a few bones. Sunday chases ended abruptly. 
SWANS AND DUCKS 
A UNIVERSITY DON. 
Black and white swans live together now on one of the ponds in 
perfect accord, but when the first black swan arrived at the gardens 
the male white swan took very strong exception to his presence. He 
thought that black swans, like black natives, should be segregated, and 
proved himself a doughty upholder of the policy of a White Australia. 
This particular black swan was not an ordinary one. Indeed, he came 
from the University, where he took all the honors of the lake to himself. 
He was so arrogant, so overbearingly superior, on the University lake. 
