...instead of the wooden Bwords, which were now laid aside. Being equipped, they put themselves in motion as a herd of kangaroos, now jumping along, then lying down and scratching themselves, as those animals do when basking in the sun. One man beat time to them with a club on a shield, while...

...instead of the wooden swords, which were now laid aside. Being equipped, they put themselves in motion as a herd of kangaroos, now jumping along, then lying down and scratching themselves, as those animals do when basking in the sun. One man beat time to them with a club on a shield, while...

...girdle worn round the waist, did not, when they were crawling on all-fours, look much unlike the toil of a dog curled over his back. Every time they passed...kangaroo. As this human herd passed the boys for the lost time they quickly divested themselves of their tails, when each man suddenly 146 caught up a boy,...

...he shows a number of men who, equipped with long tails made of grass, " put themselves in motion as a herd of kangaroos, now jumping along, then lying down and scratching themselves, as those animals do when basking in the sun. One man beat time to them with a club on a shield, while...

...collected a quantity of long grass and made a tail of it, which they fastened to the back of their girdles. Thus equipped they put themselves in motion like a herd of kangaroos, first jumping about with their knees bent, then lying down and scratching themselves, and so on. Two...

...the sword, which was laid aside during the scene. Being equipped, they put themselves in motion as a herd of kangaroos, now jumping along, then lying down and scratching themselves, as those animals do when basking in the sun . . . This was emblematical of one of their future exercises,...