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Updated: June 9, 2025
It seemed to him that the leader-goose had already made up her mind to send him home, so he didn't much care how he answered. "I never swam any farther than across a marl-ditch," he continued. "Then I presume you're a crack sprinter," said the goose.
"Akka, Akka, Akka from Kebnekaise!" wailed the goslings pitifully. "What's the trouble now?" asked the leader-goose. "We're so hungry, we can't fly any more!" whimpered the goslings. "We're so hungry, we can't fly any more!" "Wild geese must learn to eat air and drink wind," said the leader-goose, and kept right on flying.
"You are free to fly whither you will," said the leader-goose. With this, she raised her wings and flew out over the ice and one after another the wild geese followed her. The boy was very sad to think that his trip to Lapland would not come off, and, in the bargain, he was afraid of the chilly night quarters. "It will be worse and worse," said he.
In the fall I was sold to Holger Nilsson of West Vemminghög, and there I have lived ever since." "You don't seem to have any pedigree to boast of," said the leader-goose. "What is it, then, that makes you so high-minded that you wish to associate with wild geese?" "It may be because I want to show you wild geese that we tame ones may also be good for something," said the goosey-gander.
If you had been in my place, would you not have done likewise?" "You have acted in a way that makes me wish I had done that myself," said the leader-goose proudly. "It's a relief to know that you approve," said the boy. "Now there is one thing more I wish to ask you about: "One day I happened to see Gorgo, the eagle the one that fought with Morten Goosey-Gander a prisoner at Skansen.
As soon as he had said that he was human the leader-goose staggered three steps backward, and the rest of them even farther back. They all extended their necks and hissed angrily at him. "I have suspected this ever since I first saw you here on these shores," said Akka; "and now you can clear out of here at once. We tolerate no human beings among us."
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.
Evidently Daylight had noted their misbehaviour in the past and had told the swans that they must conduct themselves in a proper manner so thought the leader-goose. But just as the swans were making an effort to observe the rules of etiquette, they caught sight of the goosey-gander, who swam last in the long goose-line.
When the wild geese had stopped in front of them, they curtsied with their necks many times, and the goosey-gander did likewise many more times. As soon as the ceremonies were over, the leader-goose said: "Now I presume we shall hear what kind of creatures you are." "There isn't much to tell about me," said the goosey-gander. "I was born in Skanor last spring.
He was not disinclined to favour the scheme, and was just on the point of saying that he agreed to it when they heard a loud rumbling behind them. It was the wild geese who had come up from the lake all at one time and stood shaking the water from their backs. After that they arranged themselves in a long row with the leader-goose in the centre and came toward them.
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