110 OSTRICH-FAKMING IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



queak in the shell their T^hole nature changes, becom- 

 ing intensely savage, the hen being worse than the 

 cock ; they will then charge with such force that unless 

 a man has a thoroughly good bush he might easily be 

 killed ; but if he has a really good bush with him, 

 after a few charges the bird finds it is mastered, and 

 tames down. 



