Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 114
y have no wingsworth mention, and can no more fly than thejackals that, chase them. Hardly raising theirwings, then, but only taking enormous strides withtheir long and muscular legs, they will outstrip anybut a fast horse, and, unlike the swift antelopes,they have endurance enough to continue the… … THE INCUBATOR, OR HATCHING-MACHINE. more beautiful because surprising in a creatureso uncouth in every other feature. These gracefulornaments are the ostrich plumes. From the very earliest times these great, soft,drooping feathers attracted the eyes of the men—orpossibly the women first!—who found…
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