Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 491
n running.These birds are very strong, and could draw heavier full, bright eye, will believe that it hides its head ithe sand when brought to bay, and thinks, becausit sees nobody, it cannot be seen ? Or who wibelieve that other story, of its laying its eggs ithe sand to be hatched by the heat of… … THE OSTRICH CARRIAGE. (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH.) carriages than these light ones of the garden, ifthey were as tractable as horses, and could betrained. It is said that some African tribes havesucceeded in training them so that they ride ostrich-back more swiftly than our cavaliers ride horseback.But…
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