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Updated: May 14, 2025
A land that lay so exposed, with field upon field, reminded the boy of Skåne. He felt both happy and sad as he looked at it. "I can't be very far from home," he thought. Many times during the trip the goslings had asked the old geese: "How does it look in foreign lands?" "Wait, wait! You shall soon see," the old geese had answered.
There was always something to be done for the babies. For Mamma Goose had a whole dozen of the dearest little goslings, and she was very proud of them.
As soon as she had made this plan she stopped thinking, for it was such hard work and the sun was getting very hot on her poor head. Besides, the goslings had been in the water long enough. They never did know when to come out! So she waddled down to the brook to get them.
The spotted-leaf orchis flowers, which grow in moist and shady meads, lifting their purplish heads among the early spring grass, are called by the children "gran'fer goslings." To express extreme lack as of money they will say their purses are as bare as a toad is of feathers. In these days it is the fashion to praise mattresses and to depreciate the feather-bed.
Look carefully!" called the leader-goose. "Thus it is in foreign lands, from the Baltic coast all the way down to the high Alps. Farther than that I have never travelled." When the goslings had seen the plain, the leader-goose flew down the Öresund coast. Swampy meadows sloped gradually toward the sea.
In the morning the flock of goslings who began to swim in the pond, now grown large and grey, arrange themselves in a double row, some twenty or thirty of them, in loose order, tuck their bills under their wings and sleep. Two old birds stand in the rear as if in command of the detachment.
Her puppies and kittens and chickens and goslings were always admired by the public, and the fact that the mothers and fathers in the respective groups were never quite as convincing as their offspring, this somehow escaped the notice of the critics. Very well, then, what was Penelope inspired to do when she became Mrs.
"Therefore," says the diarist of the expedition, "some voyagers have not scrupled to state that the eggs grow on trees in Scotland, and that such of the fruits of those trees as fall into the water become goslings, while those which drop on the ground burst in pieces and come to nothing.
When they had been calling out a while: "This is Porsotjokko, this is Särjaktjokko, this is Sulitelma," and so on, the goslings became impatient again. "Akka, Akka, Akka!" they shrieked in heart-rending tones. "What's wrong?" said the leader-goose. "We haven't room in our heads for any more of those awful names!" shrieked the goslings.
Will you sit by the fire and make goslings in the ashes with a stick, as children do? Would God I were a man look what I would do!" "Why, wife," quoth her husband, "what would you do?" "What? By God, go forward with the best! For, as my mother was wont to say God have mercy on her soul it is evermore better to rule than to be ruled.
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