Four feet, wings, and fins . Thj5 Ostrichs Breakfast. BOB WHITE. day in Aunt Jerushas scrap-book of some kind of abird and there was no name to it. I dont knowwhat people want to make pictures for without anynames, said Frank. Describe It was a great, big bird, with long legs; and therewere some little ones too. I will go and bring thebook. 299 BOB WHITE. The old bird doesnt seem to have any wings,said Frank, as he opened the book and laid it uponMr. Dumas knees. I dont think this a very good picture; but ifyou look closely in the back-ground you will see twoor three of the birds, standin
Four feet, wings, and fins . Thj5 Ostrichs Breakfast. BOB WHITE. day in Aunt Jerushas scrap-book of some kind of abird and there was no name to it. I dont knowwhat people want to make pictures for without anynames, said Frank. Describe It was a great, big bird, with long legs; and therewere some little ones too. I will go and bring thebook. 299 BOB WHITE. The old bird doesnt seem to have any wings,said Frank, as he opened the book and laid it uponMr. Dumas knees. I dont think this a very good picture; but ifyou look closely in the back-ground you will see twoor three of the birds, standing on twigs, lookingintently down in the water as if watching for one of Jules Michelets books, I remember read-ing this: In the morasses of the Carolinas, Alex-ander Wilson, in 1805, found families of the heronteaching their young birds how to fly and seek theirprey. His was the first human face they ever saw,and they met him with clapping of wings andhoarse cries of welcome. The herons belong to thewaders, and are of the family Ardeidce. They havestrong, straight beaks, long, slender legs with threetoes in front, the two outer ones connected by a web,and one, back. Its plumage is a sort of a bluish-ash,its average length, f
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