It chanced out back at the Christmas time,
When the wheat was ripe and tall,
A stranger rode to the farmer's gate --
A sturdy man and a small.
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Entertaining tale about Santa Claus's visit to this Australian family. My favorite poem of Mr. Paterson is THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER.
I've head of goats eating metal (but I never believed it) but never heard of emus doing it.
Emu r like all fowl. They grind up food, mostly grain, sometimes insects in a bag in their neck called a craw. They collect in this craw small stones or anything that will help grind food incl bits of metal