. Ornithological miscellany . --1 ^ b-H r^ ^!>» W ?J M ^ 1 1 ^ ^ r/^ * O o O oo o c/: n Q ^ W -j1 -Vl O 1—1 1—1 O ^ P^ O Pi ^—• H z/) 1^ M o o ^ CO eqp-q E-i A FEW WORDS ON PEN-LAND. 213 fire with hail shoot at any fowle. For this oflFence he paid £o to the lord. Any commoner might fish and fowle in the fen with lawful nets, snares,or other engins at proper times ; and eighteen fengraves were elected, toenforce these rules. , A Lincolnshire gossard, with his long driving-stick over his shoulder,tipped with a red rag at one end and a hook at the other, cried formerly, andstill continues
. Ornithological miscellany . --1 ^ b-H r^ ^!>» W ?J M ^ 1 1 ^ ^ r/^ * O o O oo o c/: n Q ^ W -j1 -Vl O 1—1 1—1 O ^ P^ O Pi ^—• H z/) 1^ M o o ^ CO eqp-q E-i A FEW WORDS ON PEN-LAND. 213 fire with hail shoot at any fowle. For this oflFence he paid £o to the lord. Any commoner might fish and fowle in the fen with lawful nets, snares,or other engins at proper times ; and eighteen fengraves were elected, toenforce these rules. , A Lincolnshire gossard, with his long driving-stick over his shoulder,tipped with a red rag at one end and a hook at the other, cried formerly, andstill continues to shout, Lag um, lag um, as he slowly plods his wearyway, at the rate of a mile per hour, through the fens. The flock are said to be much afraid of the red rag; but what did Mrs. Bury Pallisers Historic Devices, Badges, and War-cries, p. 38, fig. 30. I quote the account,and, by permission of Messrs. Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, am able to reproduce the illustration,which refers to a curious habit of this bird).. A Goose is here representing plucking a plant with its beak, with the motto Deficiam autperficiam (I will perish or succeed). Pliny says of this bird :— Their own greedie feeding is their bane; for one while they willeat untill they burst againe, another while kill themselves with straining their owne selves; forif they chaunce to catch hold of a root with their bill, they will bite and pull so hard for to haveit, that many times they breaks their own necks withaU, before they leave their hold (Book 59). This is a strange, though ancient notion; I wonder if any one ever saw a Goose which haddied from this cause. In England they did not appear to approve of the bird so well as did the iMarquis, if it is true(as stated in the Daily Telegraph, March 1, 1878) that the Heralds amerced and imprisoned awealthy citizen for having called an heraldic Swan a Goose. 214 A FEW WORDS ON FEN-LAND. that ancient cry mean, handed down by tradition for countless gener
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