Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 116
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… … FEEDING THE YOUNG OSTRICHES. shoulder, or on the backs of oxen ; and, in theseways, ostrich-egg shells supply drinking-water forlong trips across the desert. To cool it, after aVol. VIII.—38. curious thing to know just how the world looks to ababy ostrich; the first things eaten are not food,but…
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