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Show She Bobbed Her Benefucto, One of the good old fashioned that helps to throw a sidelight o( n on the hard facts of history is totii that the sacred geese of Rome by tt, ing saved tho eternal city from cap-barbarian cap-barbarian enemies. For this tli bilted fowls received due honor, tt also through future ages, until the of the Csesars reached its end. S this, and one or two other equaii thenticated tales, the goose has been until recently merely as a bird water and simple ways; not mentai .iant, and valuable chiefly as far feathers for beds and toothsome i for the table. But now there ;irises noted, like Lucifer, for bad eminent! bird is the property of Mrs. Byi Dover, N. J., and was raised pet allowed the freedom of the house, a; ing neither the fear of death nor sta before her eyes. That she shamefully abused tli deuce of her indulgent mistress was demonstrated by developments o( date. In a place which the goose it posed to be using for the legitlmf poses of a nest Mrs. Byram found t thimbles, a tortoise shell comb, scat spools of sewiug silk, and (showi. than all else the desperate and mi: character of the bird) a "long wind" bury watch. The goosi had a t knocking at the door in rjuest of dainties, and on being admitted an' I would seek a sunny corner of thero ostensibly doze. When left alonet! ecuted her purloining opewtioiBs fully for a while; but at last, lib thievesj she encountered discovery a grace. |