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head and arms free, and then quietly waits the return 
of the bird; and when she 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 backh- 
and it is on record, 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 
