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Show Dutiful Parents. I onco watched a pair who had Just one small gosling left out of seven. They spent their anxious daj from sunup to nightfall, trying .to keep up with him. He went where he would. They, In single sin-gle file,' tagged along behind, cautioning, chiding, lamenting, with just lime to snatch a blado of graee here, a bill-full of water there, as the Irrepressible Infant In-fant straddled up and down his backyard back-yard world. "What would they have done with all seven? Both of these old birds wore woefully bedraggled In plumage, due partly to their gosling, and partly to the season. They were moulting, a particularly par-ticularly dangerous time with the geese, for In their wild haunts they become so helpless at this season that they can be run down and killed with a stick. It is well along In August before the young are able to fly. All this time both parents have cared for them and will continue' to keep the family together until un-til the next spring. No phase of the life of these great birds Is more pleasing than the thought of their family life gander, gooai and goslings united even while mingling as part of a great flock. Every wedge of wild geese that goes ' honglng overhead In the autumn nights Is either a family or a neighborhood of families led by some patriarch gander. Dallas Lore Sharp In National Magazine. Maga-zine. 1 |