spy-geese

Updated: May 3, 2025

I answered, "Certainly," although I knew well that the object of the request was that he believed that the outpost geese "spy-geese" we called them which would be the first to arrive, would probably come over low down and slow, whereas those that followed, scenting danger, might fly high and fast. This, in fact, proved to be the case, for there is no bird more clever than the misnamed goose.

Henry Rider Haggard - Marie : An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain