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tired out, he walks with the ‘'emu step’’ — which is far more haughty 
and imposing than the goose step — right into their midst, and gives a 
delightful exhibition of side stepping and high stepping. He parades 
up and down with most comical pride in himself, all the time keeping 
up the strange booming sound, as if challenging the younger ones to 
Improving on the Goose Step. 
excel him if they can. When his vanity is satisfied he retires with an 
exaggerated high step, and the others go off again on their mad chase 
in a circle. Before they stop they are all so utterly exhausted that 
they can do nothing but drop where they stand, and then they sprawl 
in most ungainly attitudes, puffing and panting like wheezy bellows. 
A MILITANT PACIFIST. 
Emus make fine pets when young, but as they grow older they 
develop very bad tempers that prevent any friendship between them and 
men becoming lasting ones. There is, too, an ineradicable tendency to 
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