AN ANTHROTOID. 
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stand him at all you must study them as a zoologist 
studies the teeth of a strange animal 
The kumblee is a home-spun blanket of the wool of 
black sheep, thick, strong, as rough as a farrier’s rasp, and 
of a colour which cannot get dirty. When the Koonbee 
comes out of his hole in 
the morning it is wrapped 
round his shoulders and 
reaches to his knees, guard- 
ing him from his great 
enemy, the cold, for the 
thermometer is down to 
6o° Fahrenheit. By-and- 
bye he has a load to carry, 
so he folds his kumblee into 
a thick pad and puts it on 
the top of his head. Anon 
he feels tired, so he lays 
down his load, and arrang- THE anthropoid at home. 
ing his kumblee as a cushion, sits with comfort on a rugged 
rock, or a stony bank, and has a smoke. Or else he 
rolls himself in it from head to foot, like a mummy, 
and enjoys a sound sleep on the roadside. It begins to 
