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The two roosters, which Sue said were the wild "ockstritches," behaved very nicely, picking up the corn in their cage as though they had been in a circus many times before. Grandpa also let the children take the old turkey gobbler and put him in a box. "What shall we call him?" asked Sue, just before the show was about to begin. "Oh, he'll be the elephant," said Bunny.
"They do," answered Grandpa Brown. "They lay eggs in the hot sand of the desert, and they are big eggs. I guess I couldn't get more than six of them in this basket." "Oh-o-o-o!" exclaimed Bunny and Sue together, with their eyes wide open. "What big eggs they must be!" went on Bunny. "And is you going to get hens' eggs or ockstritches' eggs now, Grandpa?" asked Sue.
"What's a a ockstritch?" asked Sue, for that was as near as she could say the funny word. "An ostrich," answered Grandpa Brown, "is a big bird, much bigger than the biggest Thanksgiving turkey. It has long legs, and fine feathers, and ladies wear them on their hats. I mean they wear the ostrich feathers, not the bird's legs." "And do ockstritches lay big eggs?" Sue wanted to know.
"Now here's a nice tree for you to pick peaches from," said Grandpa Brown, as he stopped under one in the orchard. "You may pick two peaches each, and eat them," went on the childrens' grandfather. "And don't you want us to pick some for you, like ockstritches' eggs, an' put them in the basket?" asked Sue.
A hen can hatch any kind of eggs." "Can a hen hatch ockstritches' eggs?" Sue wanted to know. "Well, maybe not the eggs of an ostrich," answered Grandpa Brown. "I guess a hen could only cover one of those at a time. But a hen can hatch ducks' or turkeys' eggs as well as her own kind." "So as we don't always have a duck that wants to hatch out little ones, we put the ducks' eggs under a hen.
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