While I'm putting up some quotes, can anyone help me with elaboration/explanation for this:
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He drops his two keys back into his pocket one by one, and buttons them up; he takes his dinner-bundle from the chair-back on which he hung it when he came in; he distributes the weight he carries, by tying the third key up in it, as though he were an Ostrich, and liked to dine off cold iron;
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Is there some legend regarding Ostriches and iron? Is maybe a legend of Ostriches carrying food in their feathers or something?