IN FEATHERS AND FUR. 
21 
A BABY THAT LIVES IN A BAG. 
That is a droll place for a baby to live — in a fur bag. Baby 
boys and girls wouldn't like it very well, but for baby Kangaroos 
it is just the thing. 
Most four-footed mothers, you know, make a snug nursery for 
their little ones, some of them under the ground, and others among 
rocks and other quiet places, but nature has provided Mamma 
Kangaroo with the snuggest place of all. It is a sort of a bag on 
the under side of her body. 
When the baby is born it is not so large as a mouse, and of 
course it can't do anything but drink milk and grow. So it stays 
in the bag till it is eight or nine months old, and begins to want to 
