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THE OSTRICH.
55
will at last break the accustomed circle, and,
darting across the plain, overtake us before
we are aware. No cunning or sagacity avails
against man’s superior stratagems.
" All my sisters were killed, and when, with
feminine fear, to avoid seeing their fearful
fate, I hid my head in a bush, I was caught
I was so faint and exhausted that I could
not resist But fancy my surprise when I
found one of the Englishmen was
determined to bring me to his foggy island, to
become a dead-alive sample of those who
inhabit the sandy desert! That was certainly
a mission in life I had never dreamt of; but
I am gradually getting reconciled to my
fate, and enjoy a visit as much as any one
in these marvellous gardens, where also dwell
several of my distant relatives, such as Mr.
Rhea, from South America; Mr. Emu, from
Australia; and Madame Cassowary, from the
Moluccas, besides which there are some
twenty-ninth cousins of mine, hailing all the
way from New Zealand, living close by, the
funny little kiwis, that seem to be some kind
of ’chiffoniers,’ or rag-pickers by trade, for
they are of nocturnal habits, and go poking
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