Little Wideawake: A story book for little children

by Mrs. Sale Barker

Scene VI.

Here we have an ostrich and a toucan. I think Tiny must have flown a long way to meet with these strange birds: but she finds that they are quarrelling like all the rest. The toucan is mocking the ostrich, because, with all its feathers, it cannot fly; and the ostrich laughs at the toucan for its enormous beak.

“I wish they wouldn’t all find fault with each other so much,” Tiny begins to think; “I am sure the ostrich is very beautiful, and I daresay the toucan has some good qualities, though his nose is rather ridiculous.”