The Birds of the Karoo
We love birds because they come in the summer and sing. We love ostriches because we eat their wings and their meat and their eggs, and because the First People also ate eggs. The eggshell also makes medicine which we use for our children for wind, and also for ourselves. Ostriches taste lekker, like fish. We love the colour of the birds, the hoopoe, the sparrows, but not owls, because they bring bad news, and death. We enjoyed making the plants.
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