Show misdirected EFFORTS the dutiful of a male dmn the museum of natural history at nouh kensington england has lately received the skin of a very handsome emu the last of a pair of these strange australian birds which had been kept as pets for more than twenty five years by a clergyman of essex the death of the first bird a female left its maa very desolate and as often happens in such cases be sickened and seemed likely to die hi mistress carried him dainties to tempt his appetite and also a daily jai of water again and again this jar disappeared and the lady was much incensed against the unknown person who made himself thus troublesome finally the emu retired to his shed folded his long legs and refused utterly to come out until his master in the hope that the sunshine might even yel do him some took him up bodily to carry him out then the mystery was solved ander the bird were all the missing galli pots the conscientious emu feeling that he ought to be fulfilling his destiny by hatching some ers and having no wife to lay for brn had seized upon these smooth round jars as the most promising substitutes to be had and perhaps would have perished in the attempt to hatch them it his master had not broken him up |