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The Kan-ga-roo 
H OW do you do, Sir Kan-ga-roo? If 
you measure this creature from the 
tip of his nose to the base of his 
tail, you will find that he is five feet long. 
Then his tail is four feet more. Some stand 
taller than a man, although many are very 
small. They run lightly and easily, holding 
their short forearms close to the body, and 
making very long leaps with their powerful 
hind limbs. The mother carries her little ones in a pouch under her body, 
until they care for themselves. Kan-ga-roos are found only in Aus-tra-li-a. 
The Camel 
D O YOU think this animal looks like 
a ship? “No, of course not,” you 
say. Then why is he called “the 
ship of the desert”? Simply because he can 
travel day after day over the deserts of 
Africa and Asia, heavily laden with goods, 
and go without water for several days, and 
with but little food. Some camels have two 
humps upon their backs instead of one. A 
very speedy kind of camel is called a drom-e-da-ry. He is not handsome, 
but vicious and stupid, yet so useful that the men of the deserts could not 
get along without him. 
The Whale 
S EE him spout! He is blowing the air, in a sort of whitish vapor, 
from his lungs through his one nostril, which is at the top of his 
head. He stays under water perhaps half an hour, then comes to the 
surface and blows. The whale is the very 
largest of all animals. “But he is a fish,” 
you say. He is really an animal that has 
learned to live in the water. There are 
some small whales, but the large kind are 
from fifty to seventy feet long. His mouth 
is very wide, for he lives on small fishes and 
has to eat a whole lot at a time in order to 
get the food so large a body needs. 
