. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America. . a letter which I sometime ago re-ceived from an obliging correspondent at New-York, which Ishall here give at large, permitting him to tell his story in hisowri way, and conclude my history of this species. Mr. Piatt, a respectable farmer on Long Island, being outshooting in one of the bays, which in that part of the countryabound vrith Avater-fowl, wounded a Wild Goose. Beina wina:-tipped, and unable to fly, he caught it, and brought it home proved to be a female, and turning it into his
. Frank Forester's field sports of the United States, and British provinces, of North America. . a letter which I sometime ago re-ceived from an obliging correspondent at New-York, which Ishall here give at large, permitting him to tell his story in hisowri way, and conclude my history of this species. Mr. Piatt, a respectable farmer on Long Island, being outshooting in one of the bays, which in that part of the countryabound vrith Avater-fowl, wounded a Wild Goose. Beina wina:-tipped, and unable to fly, he caught it, and brought it home proved to be a female, and turning it into his yard, with aflock of tame Geese, it soon became quite tame and familiar,and in a little time its wounded wing entii-ely healed. In thefollowing spring, when the Wild Geese migrate to the north-ward, a flock passed over Mr. Piatts barn-yard, and just at thatmoment their leader happening to sound his bugle note, ourGoose, in whom its new habits and enjoyments had not quiteextinguished the love of liberty, and remembering the well-known sound, spread its wings, mounted into the air, joined the. WILD FOWL. 65 travellers, and soon cllsappcarcd. In tlie succcc(lin<r autumn,the Wild Geese, as was usual, returned from the northward ingreat numbers, to pass the winter in our bays and rivers ; happening to bo standing in his yard, when a flock passeddirectly over his barn. At that instant he obsirvcd three Geesedetach themselves from the rest, and after wheeling round seve-ral times, alighted in the middle of the yard. Imagine his sur-prise and pleasure, when, by certain well-remembered signs, herecogni/.cd in one of those three Geese, his long-lost was she, indeed ; she had travelled many hundred miles tothe lakes—had there hatched and reared her oflspring, and hadnow returned with her little family, to share the sweets of civi-lized life. The truth of the foreofoincj relation can be attestedby many respectable people, to whom Mr. Piatt has related thecircumsta
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