The Ostrich Kick

When a farmer goes into a savag bird's camp he takes a pole, with branch or two of the thorny "tuck, and wben the tuck is applied to th ostrich's neek orhead (his tender points he is almost invariably subdued, anc after one or two efforts to escape, bolt f uriously off to the other side of th camp, where he races up and down t vent his ballled rage. If, however, th bird gel3 near enough to give his op ponent the so called kick, he lifts hi tony leg as high as his body anc throws it forward with demoniac gro tesqueness, and brings it down with terrible force. object is to rip th enemy down with bis dangeruus üaw but in tnoat cases it is the Üat Lottom of nis foot wbich strikes, and the kiek is dangerous as miicíi rom lts sbee power ns f rom its lacera' ing effects. I is a movement of terrible velocity auc power, at all events. Severa! iustance may bs mentioned of herd-boys bein thas either wounded, mained, er killtc outright. One case occurrod nea {1 r o -PF TíciiiUit" ir tX7Íi i '11 q Vir;d a -1 rii _l 1 Uil IL 1 l Vj 1 1 l . l ; 111 1' lliV.ll (. UV1 UU IUHI 111 back broken by a single blow. In thi case the bird hadeudeavoredtokill th rider, but missed and struek th horse. Many persons have been set upon b; birds when there was no shelter, no even a tree to run to. In sueh a case if the pursued were acquainted wit struthious tactics, he would lie dow flat on the ground, where tlie bird fmd it impossible to strike him. But eve this is no light matter, for some bird in their rage at being bíiírled ot thei kick, wiu 1011 uver tueu piusuau enemy, bellowing with fury and tram pling upon him in the most contempi uous i'ashion. One man who thus a templed the lyiug-Jo wn plan found tha every time lie attetnpted lo rise th bird would returr and stand stntr over him, till at last, after creeping distance he got out only by swirnmin a pond that bouuded one side of th camp.