Show GOOSE That Lays GOLDEN EGGS BRITISH paper prints the following interesting inter inter- A eating esting story regarding Killing the Goose That Lays the Golden Egg Nearly a hundred years ago Charles Lamb in- in one of his whimsical essays drew attention to the fact that hat many an old saw has in it a lie half-lie as well as a superficial truth The idea that it itis itis itis is foolish to kill kilt the goose that lays the golden eggs may in future be called in question as the result of an experience which has befallen a farmer named BlackWood whose homestead is near Calgary Blackwood killed one of his geese one day for dinner and what should be in its gizzard but several yer l' l gold nuggets He proceeded to kill all his ia other geese ieee favorite and otherwise and all the ducks and the massacre yielded many manya a additional nuggets I Blackwood wood then scraped up a couple of 01 shovels of black sand from his farm and took it to toan toan toan an analyst who reported ted the sand to assay 1830 grains of gold to the cubic yard Naturally the dis discovery very of mining gold-mining ducks and geese geee has led to a great rush of ot buyers of these birds Thousands that have been roaming in the country adjacent to Blackwood's farm have been sold above par end and are now gone west weaL Goose with sage and onions and roast duc duck c care are at a d discount count at the Calgary hotels and a big ig rush of gold hun hunters rs or duck hunters is expected as soon as the new now crop of ducks and geese have havo havea a c chance ance to feed up 1 X w JUl |