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Possibly in former times the good qualities of the goose were better known than now; for the sagacity and affection of this bird have been proved by so many well authenticated instances, that I am at a loss which to select for your entertainment, and must try to choose those you are least likely to have met with already. As a proof of the goose's sagacity, is the following.
Lieutenant Brown gave him to his cousin that's in the Middleburgh house of Vanbeest and Vanbruggen, and told him some goose's gazette about his being taken in a skirmish with the land-sharks; he gave him for a footboy. Me let him escape! the bastard kinchin should have walked the plank ere I troubled myself about him. 'Well, and was he bred a foot-boy then?
Make a silken case for the little basket, and hide it away in your dress night and day and you will be safe from your stepmother and anyone that tries to harm you. But if you should happen to find yourself in any difficulty, and cannot tell what to do, take the goose's wing from the basket, and throw it out of the window, and in a moment I will come to help you.
"Old man!" cried Sir Hurricane, losing his placidity a little. "Yes, old man; look at your hair as grey as a goose's." "Why, as for my hair, that proves nothing, Mrs Jellybag, for though there may be snow on the mountains there is still heat in the valleys. What d'ye think of my metaphor?"
Ought not the latter to be called a thief of the first water, or ten times more a rogue than the other? the tailor merely takes snips of cloth from his customer, whilst the other takes from the poor man the sustenance of his beast, and by so doing the sustenance of himself and his little ones what is taking a handful of flour at the mill, to keeping a hundred sacksfull to putrify, in order to obtain afterwards a four-fold price? what is the half-naked soldier who takes your garment away with his sword, to the lawyer, who takes your whole estate from you with a goose's quill, without any claim or bond upon it? and what is the pickpocket who takes five pounds, to the cogger of dice who will cheat you of a hundred in the third part of a night? and what is the jockey who tricks you in some old unsound horse, to the apothecary who chouses you of your money, and your life also with some old unwholesome physic? and yet what are all these thieves to the mistress-thief there, who takes away from the whole all these things, and their hearts and their souls at the end of the fair?"
The eruption of the volcano, which had taken place at the time of the late departure of the vessels from Awatska, had done no damage, notwithstanding stones had fallen at the ostrog of the size of a goose's egg.
Father Laurus must surely have omitted to add that a goose's brains in the head of the operator was an element essential to the success of the experiment! But this man, although very ignorant in regard to the nature of the substances, with which he wrought, had some quaint notions in his head.
But I do. And she laughed again, and something glistened in her eyes. 'Would you like to be rich, pet? he asked her coaxingly. 'Rich, John! How CAN you ask such goose's questions? 'Do you regret anything, my love? 'Regret anything? No! Bella confidently answered. But then, suddenly changing, she said, between laughing and glistening: 'Oh yes, I do though. I regret Mrs Boffin.
The book is called Demands Joyous, and was printed in A.D. 1511. I may extract the following riddles: "What is it that never was and never will be? Answer: A mouse's nest in a cat's ear. Why does a cow lie down? Because it cannot sit. How many straws go to a goose's nest? Not one, for straws, not having feet, cannot go anywhere."
On his birth the nurse went to Sám and told him that God had blessed him with a wonderful child, without a single blemish, excepting that his hair was white; but when Sám saw him he was grieved: His hair was white as goose's wing, His cheek was like the rose of spring His form was straight as cypress tree But when the sire was brought to see That child with hair so silvery white, His heart revolted at the sight.
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