Show GOOSE 18 decorative caralee in her breast a piece of pol dished ivory not long since a wild goose was hilled in one of the lakes ol 01 northern california the hunter wag out bunt ing and suddenly on three very large wild geese that instantly took wing one was shot and killed when the hunter picked up the big honker which weighed nearly twenty pounds he was surprised to see a piece of ivory sticking out from the breast of the bird just below one of its wings with some difficulty he succeeded in pulling out this polished stick of ivory the flesh had grown tightly around the piece and the wound that had once been inflicted was entirely healed on pulling out the object the hunter discovered that it was an ar row point about eight inches long very sharp at one end and about the size of an ordinary pencil there were some queer peculiar delicate ings on the stem where it had been attached to the wooden arrow these quaint cravings were quite visible on a careful inspection they were pronounced to be of eskimo origin the bird had been shot away up oward the arctic regions but had not fatally wounded with the piece of polished walrus tooth in its breast the honker had winged its way tor thousands of miles the eskimo hunter had failed to get his goose but it tell the victim to the white hunter the wooden shaft had doubtless been broken oft in the long flight |