"Why don't you call the Dingo at once?" laughed the Kookooburra, who was
really keeping guard over Dot, although she did not know it. "Humans kill
Dingoes."
"The Dingo! The Dingo!" every creature repeated in horror and
consternation; and they all looked about in fear, while the Kookooburra
chuckled to himself at all the stir his words had made.
"It's quite true that animals and birds kill one another," said the Magpie,
who thought he ought to say something in Dot's defence, as that was his
part in the trial, "therefore it is the same nature that makes Humans kill
us. If it is the nature of Humans to kill, the same as it is the nature
of birds and animals to kill, where is the sense and justice of trying the
prisoner for what she can't help doing?"
"Good!" said the Welcome Swallow, "argued like a lawyer."
At this unexpected turn of the trial the Judge softly whistled to himself,
"Pop goes the weasel."
"Don't talk to us about nature and justice and sense," replied the Pelican,
contemptuously. "This is a Court of law, we have nothing to do with any
of them!"
The Court all cheered 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.
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