A MARVELLOUS EGG.
(To TOR ILDITOR Or ruus " MP ROTATOR," ] Henry Wood of Grahamstown, Cape Colony, has m his possession an ostrich egg which has the letters " W 0 0 D" distinctly marked on it. The hen had shortly before been b:anded with a block-letter brand" W 0 0 D," and it is supposed that branding the bird bad affected the soft shell of the egg not yet ready for "laying." Farmers fre- quently experience curious births such as the above in cattle, sheep, &c., but that an ostrich-egg shell should have taken on a perfect print of the brand must be rather "out of the way."
am, Sir, dm, C. STUART. The Pastures, Bayville, Cape Colony.
[We wish Mrs. Gamp of immortal memory could have seen, or at any rate have heard of, this egg. She could have Used it to support her story of the gentleman who had the image of a mad bull in Wellington boots on his arm on account of his mother having before his birth been "worrited" into a shoemaker's shop by a mad bull.—En. Spectator.]
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