Far Away And Long Ago A History Of My Early Life By W. H. Hudson








































































 -  Their grey plumage being so much like the cardoon
bushes in colour had prevented me from seeing them before I - Page 99
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Their Grey Plumage Being So Much Like The Cardoon Bushes In Colour Had Prevented Me From Seeing Them Before I Was Right Among Them.

The strange thing was that they paid not the slightest attention to me, and pulling up my pony I

Sat staring in astonishment at them, particularly at one, a very big one and nearest to me, engaged in leisurely pecking at the clover plants growing among the big prickly thistle leaves, and as it seemed carefully selecting the best sprays.

What a great noble-looking bird it was and how beautiful in its loose grey-and-white plumage, hanging like a picturesquely-worn mantle about its body! Why were they so tame? I wondered. The sight of a mounted gaucho, even at a great distance, will invariably set them off at their topmost speed; yet here I was within a dozen yards of one of them, with several others about me, all occupied in examining the herbage and selecting the nicest-looking leaves to pluck, just as if I was not there at all! I suppose it was because I was only a small boy on a small horse and was not associated in the ostrich brain with the wild-looking gaucho on his big animal charging upon him with a deadly purpose. Presently I went straight at the one near me, and he then raised his head and neck and moved carelessly away to a distance of a few yards, then began cropping the clover once more.

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