. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ANAS CANADENSIS. CANADA GOOSE. spring. Hawnk ! honk ! and forard to the norard is the trumpet-tone !What goose can lag, or feather flag, or break the goodly cone ?Hawnk I onward to the cool blue lakes where lie our safe love-bowers,No stop, no drop of ocean-brine, near stool or hassock hoary,Our travelling watchword is owr mates, our goslings, and our glory VSymsonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers,And not a breast on wave shall rest, until that heav
. The American sportsman : containing hints to sportsmen, notes on shooting, and the habits of game birds and wild fowl of America . ANAS CANADENSIS. CANADA GOOSE. spring. Hawnk ! honk ! and forard to the norard is the trumpet-tone !What goose can lag, or feather flag, or break the goodly cone ?Hawnk I onward to the cool blue lakes where lie our safe love-bowers,No stop, no drop of ocean-brine, near stool or hassock hoary,Our travelling watchword is owr mates, our goslings, and our glory VSymsonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers,And not a breast on wave shall rest, until that heaven is ours. Hawnk! Hawnk! E—e Hawnk! ILD GEESE are widely spread over thewhole of the country; and there arefew portions of the United States where the Jionking of the goose is not familiarto the inhabitants. These fowl, in theirmigrations south and north, are con-sidered the sure harbingers of drearywinter or the near approach of cheerful They breed in the remotest regions of the North, even 375
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