OCR Text |
Show A FOWL PROCEEDING. A few nights s.nct1, says the Sacramento Sacramen-to Union of March -d, onic huiitors spread a net over the S:teramento drainage canal, a few miles below the city, to catch tho geese that gathered there during the hours of darkuws. 1'hey were succcs.sful in the enterprise catching quite a mimbcr, winch tliey brought lo the city alive and sold. The person ihat bcnijiht ili fowls loaded diem into hid wagon, and made a tour of the city, offering tliciu for sale as tame geese at the rate of $1 each. As they appeared to be fat and nice, a number were .sold to different parlies singly, or in pair?, the puiultas-ers puiultas-ers not discovering the cheat until the geese were being prepared for the oven. Among those thus made game uf was one of our city officers. Although a good cook, he didn't recognize the qualify of his gioso till he came to eat u. liut the wort suld of till, was a man who, alter about half the wagon load had been sold bought the remainder re-mainder "at a bargain," saying that he thought lie might as well raise a few geese it wouldn't be much trouble. tie took tlieui home, turtied theru loose in his lot, and found that it really was not much trouble to raise them in fact, they raised themselves, and with such ease and swiftness, that he remained re-mained staring after them iu open: mouthed amazement for some minutes, the expression of his lace gradually changing, however, to ene of'ihe most intense disgust as the truth began to dawn upon him. |