Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 118
rs of digestion. I read the other day that an ostrich at the Gar-den of Plants, Paris, having accidentally strangleditself, the stomach was opened and was found tocontain fifteen pebbles, seven nails, a scarf-pin, anenvelope, a franc piece and thirteen sous in coppermoney, two keys, a piece of a… … COLLECTING THE OSTRICHES INTO THE CORRAL, The poor birds at the Cape do not get such luxu-rious fare, but must confine themselves to pebbles,of which, says a recent writer, as many as ninehundred have been found in a single birds gizzard !These hard substances are swallowed to assist thecrushing of…
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