red at this reply, and the Magpie subsided in the
sulks.

"Call the Kangaroo!" cried the white Ibis.

"It's no good," jeered the Kookooburra.

"Kangaroo and Dot are great friends. She won't come if you called----"

"Till all's blue!" interrupted the judge and he went on with "Pop goes
the Weasel." This news caused a buzz of excitement. Everyone was
astounded that the Kangaroo, who had the heaviest grievances of all,
wouldn't appear against the prisoner.

"Is it possible," said the Pelican, addressing the Kookooburra in slow
stern accents, "Is it possible that the Kangaroo has forgiven all her
grievances?"

"All," said the Kookooburra.

"The hunting?" asked the Pelican.

"Yes," answered the Kookooburra.

"The rugs?"

"Yes."

"The boots?"

"Yes."

"And," said the Pelican, still more solemnly and slowly, while all the
Court listened in breathless attention, "and has she forgiven
KANGAROO-TAIL SOUP?"

"Yes! she's forgiven that too," answered the Kookooburra cheerfully.

"Then," said the Pelican, hotly, "I throw up the case," and he spread
his huge black wings, and flapped his way up into the sky and away.

"What a go!" said the judge; and he might have said more, only Dot
could not hear anything on account of the racket and confusion. The
trial had failed, and every creature was making all the noise it could,
and preparing to hurry away. In the middle of the turmoil, Dot's
Kangaroo bounded into the open space, panting with excitement and
delight.

"Dot! Dot!" she cried, "I've found Willy Wagtail, and he knows your
way! Come along at once!" And, putting Dot in her pouch, the Kangaroo
leaped clean over the judge and carried her off!

CHAPTER XII.

Although the Kangaroo was longing to hear the reason why so many Bush
creatures had collected round Dot whilst she was away, she was too
anxious to carry her to Willy Wagtail before nightfall to wait and
enquire what had happened. Dot, too, was so excited at hearing that
her way home had been found, that she could only think of the delight
of seeing her father and mother again. So the Kangaroo had hopped
until she was tired and needed rest, before they spoke. Then Dot
described the Trial, and made the Kangaroo laugh about the Cockatoo
judge, but she did not say how it had all ended because the Kangaroo
had forgiven Dot for Humans making rugs of her fur, boots of her skin,
and soup of her tail. She was afraid of hurting her feelings by
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