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(1880) Author: Albert Alberg - Tema: Fables
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THE OSTRICH.

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here." She only slightly shook her head, and
then looked at me. " What is the matter with
you to-day ? You seem a little put out. Has
anybody annoyed you ? "

"You saw that tall lady, for whom they
opened the door ? They called her Lady
Manners," answered the ostrich, " and she wore
a large, beautiful white ostrich-plume in her hat,
and that aroused strange feelings in my breast,
and thoughts of a free and happy life, long ago,
in my desert home. Will you please to take a
seat on my back ? I have no other chair to offer
you, and I will tell you my story, for you must
be a sympathising friend, or you would not
come so often to see me."

" I shall lean against the partition of your
little room, Mrs. Ostrich, as gracefully as I can,
for were I to accept your kind invitation, your
keeper might put a stop to my visiting you."

She acquiesced with a graceful turn of her
neck, and continued : " Lady Manners, indeed !
I think it very bad manners to come on a visit
to a dowager ostrich and flaunt a white ostrich
feather in her face, for surely she cannot be
so ignorant as not to know that the white
plumes are only obtained from the gallant male

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