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...kangaroo and a flea are much the same. They both jump. But a kangaroo has a certain nobility and a flea at times can be most annoying. It is the same with Art and Science. They both hop all over man and his world. But Art is conveniently flattering to man and Science can be most uncomplimentary. Art makes us bare forked animals the protagonists of the great drama of life. Science puts us in our places. That is why genealogy is an art. It takes a whole family tree to make a man, What could be better calculated...
Only, to be frank, the suitability of elephant-gray to the purpose in hand might be questioned. Some men do bear strong similitude to an elephant weighing anchor when they essay a rush from skirmish line. Others advance more like the familiar kangaroo. Perhaps, all in all, rhinoceros-gray would suit best the complexion of a recruit...
...Last Jump of the Kangaroo...
...number opens with "Black Bass Fishing" by Francis J. Hagan. The author describes in an entertaining way the methods of bass fishing illustrated from his own experience. There are several illustrations. "After Kangaroo" is an article of rather uncommon nature. It described two kangaroo hunters, one in which the hunters run the game like a fox, the other really a battue in which all the kangaroos possible were killed, for in some parts of Australia the kangaroos are very numerous and are a great nuisance...
...away in the desolate wilds of South America, where roams the disconsolate tapir, and the melancholy hyenas come trooping home at eventide; where the kangaroo leaps in demoniac exultation, and the boa-constrictor, after coiling himself tenderly but firmly around the waist of the intruder, gazes with embarrassing familiarity into his eyes, - in this forsaken region, far from civilization, with its weary load of unrest, its perpetual strivings after the unattainable, and its ceaseless Knock at the fast-closed gate of the empyrean, and all that --. But what am I saying, or where am I? Of course - I forgot...