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THE OSTRICH. 
then quietly waits the return of the bird ; and when s he 
is steadily seated on her nest, an arrow is shot through her 
head. 
So great is their muscular strength, that tame ones will 
run along with a person on their hack ; and it is on record, 1 
that F. Firmius, who reigned in Egypt in the third century, | 
was drawn in a chariot by Ostriches. Their strength of leg ! 
renders them sometimes very mischievous ; and at a farm in 
the Cape of Good Hope, the owner was obliged to kill a 
favourite tame one, which was not satisfied with swallowing 
chickens whole, and trampling hens to death, in order to 
tear them in pieces, hut at last took to trampling even sheep j 
to death. 
The Cassowary and Emu in many respects resemble the 
Ostrich, differing from him chiefly in the plumage, which in 
the former partakes more of the nature of hair or bristles, 
