Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 116
kes his cups and pitchers and water-jars. In South Africa, particularly, water is ex-tremely scarce and precious. The wild natives,therefore, empty the eggs through small holes, and j88l.J OSTRI CH-FARMING. 593 fill the shells with water, corking up the orifices, days journey in the sun, they bury… … A HERD OF OSTRICHES AT THE WATERING-PLACE. inclose each shell in a bag. Thus inclosed and of the shell, we are told, the chicks eat nothingprotected in the netting, the stout egg-shells can whatever, but sit on their haunches and imbibebe tied together and safely carried over a mans their first…
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