. Stories about birds of land and water . on his camel, but on his ostrich. A traveller was once staying in a village where there were two tameostriches. Two little boys used to mount on the back of one of them andhave a ride. The ostrich would run round and round the village, and neverseemed inclined to stop. At first his pace was a trot, but, by degrees, he expanded his wings andran very fast indeed, scarcely seeming to touch the ground. No race-horsein England could have kept up wiih him, though the ostrich would have gottired very much the soonest. The beautiful feathers of the ostrich arc
. Stories about birds of land and water . on his camel, but on his ostrich. A traveller was once staying in a village where there were two tameostriches. Two little boys used to mount on the back of one of them andhave a ride. The ostrich would run round and round the village, and neverseemed inclined to stop. At first his pace was a trot, but, by degrees, he expanded his wings andran very fast indeed, scarcely seeming to touch the ground. No race-horsein England could have kept up wiih him, though the ostrich would have gottired very much the soonest. The beautiful feathers of the ostrich arc so admired, that great painsand trouble are taken to procure them. The Arab comes with his swift horse in search of the ostriches. A flock of them are quietly feeding together on the plain. If it ismid-day, they strut about, fanning their wings as if for coolness. When they perceive the enemy they begin to run, at first gently, for THE OSTRICH IN FLIGHT. :89 he keeps at a distance, and docs net wish to alarm them more than hecan lie!;).. OSTRICH HUNT. The wings of the bird keep working hke two sails, and he gets over theTound so fast that he would soon be out of sight if he ran in a straight Hne. 190 STORIES ABOUT BIRDS. But he is so foolish as to keep running from one side to the other. Thehunter, meanwhile, rides straight on, and when his horse is knocked up,another hunter takes up the game, and so on, allowing the poor bird no , in a fit of despair, he hides his head in the sand. And ostriches have even been seen to swim, a fact not generally known.
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