156 HOME LIFE ON AN OSTRICH FARM. 



future were to be separated by glass from a public 

 idiotic enough to waste its money in poisoning them. 



After this, we were quite able to believe a story told 

 us of how a girl was one day seen at the Zoo, feeding 

 these same unfortunate birds with some ten or twelve 

 pairs of old kid gloves, evidently saved up for the 

 purpose, and presented, one after another, tightly rolled 

 up into a ball ; the creatures gulping them down quite 

 as a matter of course, and looking out for more. 



