Four feet, wings, and fins . cotton all over, and keeps them in a warmplace till the goose is ready to sit on them. O, theyre all comin out of the water! ex-claimed Rose. I am doin to catch one of thelittle dooses, and. away she ran, stooping to takeup one of the goslings. The next moment shegave a scream and let it fall, for an old gander hadgiven a hiss, and stretched out his long neck afterher. Thats the little goslings papa, said Kenny, asRose buried her face in her cousins lap. He dontlike you to touch his babies. I dont love im a bit. He might know Iwouldnt hurt his little doslings, pout
Four feet, wings, and fins . cotton all over, and keeps them in a warmplace till the goose is ready to sit on them. O, theyre all comin out of the water! ex-claimed Rose. I am doin to catch one of thelittle dooses, and. away she ran, stooping to takeup one of the goslings. The next moment shegave a scream and let it fall, for an old gander hadgiven a hiss, and stretched out his long neck afterher. Thats the little goslings papa, said Kenny, asRose buried her face in her cousins lap. He dontlike you to touch his babies. I dont love im a bit. He might know Iwouldnt hurt his little doslings, pouted Rose. Did you ever see a wild goose, Pat ? askedGrace. I hev. Ive seen em fly over mony a time, greatlong strings of em, sometimes in the shape of a 321 KENNY S GOSLINGS. letter T, sometimes loike a Y with a long tail, then,again, loike a V or a W. Indeed ! said Grace, I thought it was alwayslike the letter V. Oh, no mum. Ive seen em many a time. Theylook loike strakes of silver against the blue sky theyfly so high, ** Do they always fly high ? Mostly; always when they are on their waydown South — when they fly low it is a sign of amoild winter: Did you ever see them ctcp to rest ? KENNY S GOSLINGS. Yis, mum, but theyre very skeery loike, alwayson the look-out. Its no aisy matther to catch a wildgoose, mum. A wild-goose chase is proverbial I believe; yetour tame geese originated from the wild geese. That so, mum ? Where do you suppose wild geese make theirnests ? asked Frank. Down among sedges and coarse grasses inmarshy districts, or on the banks of rivers andcreeks. At least the snow-goose {Anserhyperboreas)does and the Canada or cravat-goose {Anser-Cana-densis) The Canada-goose is the common wildgoose of the United States — a dark grey with ablack tail, feet and bill. The snow-goose is purewhite with deep, red feet and legs. Some of Kennys geese are white and somegrey, said May. Then Kenny has both species. There areseveral species, found in nearly all parts of
Size: 2114px × 1181px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectzoology, bookyear1879
