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"Yes!" it said; "when I'm pleased there is no creature in the bush can make such a noise, or so many different noises at once. I waken everyone for a quarter of a mile round. You wouldn't think it, to see me as I am, would you?" The Koala was evidently very pleased with this accomplishment. "It isn't kind of you to wake up all the sleeping creatures," said Dot. "Why not?" asked the Koala.
"What luck!" laughed the Opossum, as it cleared into the nearest tree. "I am glad," sighed the Koala, as it slowly moved away; "that trial made my head feel empty." "Well, there go three of the most important witnesses," grumbled the Pelican. "My eye, what a spree!" said the judge.
Dot had never seen one so near before, and she loved it at once, it looked so innocent and kind. "You dear little native Bear!" she exclaimed, at once stroking its head. "Am I a native Bear?" asked the animal in a meek voice. "I never heard that before. I thought I was a Koala. I've always been told so, but of course one never knows oneself. What are you? Do you know?"
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But, for all his foolishness and helplessness, Koala had lived a very long time, and actually was very well versed in bush-lore, though he liked to describe himself as the most forlorn and helpless of beasts.
"You make my head feel empty," said the Koala, sadly. "I live in the gum tree over there. Do you eat gum leaves?" "No. When I'm at home I have milk, and bread, and eggs, and meat." "Dear me!" said the Koala. "They're all new to one. Is it far? I should like to see the trees they grow on. Please show me the way." "But I can't," said Dot; "they don't grow on trees, and I don't know my way home.
As a matter of fact, the Wolfhound lay down beside the native bear, and they had quite a long confab upon bush affairs, during which Finn referred in some way to the growing scarcity of game in that district, and Koala mournfully added that gum-leaves themselves were by no means what they had been.
"I'm a little girl," replied Dot, proudly. The Koala saw that Dot was proud, but as it didn't see any reason why she should be, it was not a bit afraid of her. "I never heard of one or saw one before," it said, simply. "Do you burrow, or live in a tree?" "I live at home," said Dot; but, wishing to be quite correct, she added, "that is, when I am there."
The caecum is a branch or diverticulum of the intestine, ending in a cul-de-sac, and is extremely long in many of the lower vegetable-feeding mammals. In the marsupial koala it is actually more than thrice as long as the whole body.
Dot had never seen one so near before, and she loved it at once, it looked so innocent and kind. "You dear little Native Bear!" she exclaimed, at once stroking its head. "Am I a Native Bear?" asked the animal in a meek voice. "I never heard that before. I thought I was a Koala. I've always been told so, but of course one never knows oneself. What are you? Do you know?"
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