| Show TWO REMARKABLE GEESE GEES uC Bird Haunt the Ramparts of a Massachusetts Tort Port In the spring of a family tamly moved fr from m South Hadley to a I house near Fort lort Washington Washing Washing- ton Boxed up and packed carefully away av a on the tho tram team containing the chattels chatel of the owner were the tho large gray geese whose ages at that tnt time history gives no record and lr tradition Is h dumb says a a writer in the tho Boston Post Tn Two o of ot the 1 hoar hoary birds are still sti living and their har harsh h honkers honk are dally daily caly heard around the ramparts of the decaying fortress as a they fight over squirming eels eel east cast cat ashore by by IncomIng Incoming In In- coming coining comIng tides There Thele Is a look of evil evi Intelligence about tl these e e grim fowls fowl as they fiercely tear asunder some luckless frog musing on a n pile pie of ot stranded strand strand- ed driftwood or sullenly following the trail tri of a I starving starIng g gOat goit at which famine has his driven forth to seek sustenance among floating gar gir- lingo on en the borders holders of the noiseless Charles Years and Ind years yeara ago these old gee geese e were the tho targets of sportsmen who gunned along the waters of the putrid river but the hunters of to day to-day day leave the felt fell fel birds In place the dark mystery touching their a age c and the non non effect effect of bullets or shot ahot on their mailed like hides scare seare them back bak from ouch uch dread game There here 1 Is la a u legend among the old Id river residents resi resl- dents denta to the effect that forty y years ars or more ago 10 a n of men meu bound one of the ge se on a Fourth of July to the muzzle mn of a rusty cannon mounted on a n mud amid bastion baston at the fort foil heavily with old old horseshoes horseshoes horse horse- shoes and clam shells The gun was discharged discharged dis- dis dis charged the lashings blown to shreds but the goose waddled an away ay and nd began picking up worms with a beak that had become a 11 littie little lit lit- tie tle te twisted by the force of the explosion |
