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I don't think there is any more to it unfortunately.

Yes, they love boxes don't they? I've seem great YouTube clips of cats in all shapes of boxes. Our little cat always loved boxes too.

@JudyEv Oh lol I see that makes sense and makes the story funnier.

Well, if the men crept up with the hat, the teeth would bite them. This was a very long time ago and the aborigines were quite primitive then. They would never have seen a glass eye or false teeth.

@JudyEv I suppose they came up with something creative. Humans can be very creative to avoid working.

@LadyDuck That's very true.

Yes, I wonder if they came up with something creative or if they just decided to keep working.

@JudyEv Well, that figures! Hmmm... I wonder.... Would you mind if I used your story as the basis for one of my own? I think it might be fun to ask people on myLot how they would finish this story, Judy... I could give the link to the first part of your story and you could add the link to the second part of your story to your first part.... You could get more traffic to both of your discussions and I would get the overflow, so to speak. (I'll let you approve my story before I post it, if that is alright with you?)

I never heard what happened after that. :) It would be good to think they came up with a solution but if they did I didn't hear about it.

@DaddyEvil That's fine. I don't need to approve yours. I need to go do some stuff for awhile so I'll link mine together when I get a chance.

I think they were nice pets but some of the smaller 'hoppy things' are very timid and never really adapt to domestication. The bigger roos seem more at ease living with people.

@JudyEv oh, i'd not keep one's a pet, though such'd be most temptin' with many critters. i'd a raccoon whilst i t'was growin', 'ts momma got ran o'er 'n t'was'n orphan i raised. that's the closest to 'undomesticated' critters i've 'd 's a pet.

@crazyhorseladycx I'd just about forgotten but it is illegal to keep native animals as pets in Australia. The sanctuaries are all licensed to have them. In Ireland there was an emu at one of the caravan parks. It also had some heritage sheep breeds and other animals. The emu wasn't easily visible as it was considered 'exotic' and if it had been on public display they would have had to employ a veterinarian. The mind boggles, doesn't it?

@JudyEv They are really cute, I thought they were rabbits.

They are cute little animals aren't they?

It must be pretty tricky posting from your phone. I wouldn't like to be doing that.

@JudyEv Well it is better than not mylotting.Hope I do not make any blunders

The skink got caught again this morning. :)

@JudyEv yes it is very unusual really. yes by the time goes i'l be able to teach someone abt Australia by reading ur posts

We do have some unusual animals don't we? You will be learning a lot about Australia. :)

With much gnashing maybe! lol

Yes, tamar, darma or dama wallabies are one and the same and all quite small.

@JudyEv DE has a discussion about the end of this story. You might want to check it out.

The workers would get bitten if they tried to cover up the eye. :)

DaddyEvil has written a post asking people to comment on what they think happened.

It would be quite nice if they thought up some way to combat the teeth. :)

It's mostly repeated here. The boss put his glass eye on the post because the labourers were slacking off if he went away. So they put a hat over the eye so it couldn't see what they were doing. This was way back in the 'good old days'.

Most wallaby species would be bigger than these. And maybe the proper name is plain 'tamar'. The terms 'wallaby' and 'kangaroo' are sometimes used as generic terms.