Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 399
or sixty yards, when he merely jogsa hundred yards or so off the track, and takesno more notice of the disturber. The writer hasoften been amused to notice the politeness withwhich the old man emu invariably waits untilhis wife and family have a start of a couple ofhundred yards, whenhe ambles in… … Emu. minutes, usually accompanied by a family of eightor ten chicks the size of grown turkeys. Oneold male, indeed, started running parallel with thetrain, which, as there is no perceptible bend inthe line in that part for close on two hundredmiles, should have been making good time : yethe kept up…
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