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LA A Y nOOSE Another of If 11 Grace I Cooke's Cookes I Quilt Quint Storks Stories Grace MacGowan Cooke In June St. St Sl Nicholas America the thc nurse nurse girl sIrl at plantation came running one one morning to call cal the lie three children and tell lell them that a 0 wild wid goose had hac stopped slopped aron among the thc fowls Cowl In the thc barn barn- yard ad Pate Pale Patricia and amid little Isabel pelted awa away down the lie s fope sope ope toward the chicken n yard arl where Aunt Viney who always had huc chal charge c of the time fowls Cowls was scattering cane cale seed There he lie stood slim and dark eurl and differently shaped front from the other geese eese yet plainly kin to them an and amid gobbling his share of or the tIme breakfast with evident I relish Oh hes he's a visitor cried Patricia and they ought to be he more polite to him for or a n. n big a-big big speckled rooster had just In n ahead of oC the newcomer new new- corner comer an and tri tried d to eat up all al the seed In iii sight Never you ou mind honey Aunt Viney reassured the thc little girl girl Dat wild wid feller feler gut got sot stron strong wing winG he gwine be de biggest lg Sl frog froG In de tie puddle long ez z he stay star hyer hyel lie He 1 gets gels sets his strong wings from n flyIng fly fly- ing inG so far sJ said Pate If I he was out ul In lii the open father Cather or 01 Cousin Bolivar Bol ar would shoot him hint but hes he's home free fre hi here Will Wiil i he lie stay always Aunt Viney asked askel Ishel Isabel V Nom Miss Baby I he hc pick liCk pickup up an go when he gits Sis a n good bait o 0 cane seed hell he'll hel ath thy stay a n week weel sometimes dese se h hyer er wild wie fel fellers eilers ei- ei lers does docs As s s thc they V turned back to the house hOUSH America nun announced that she knew a atoe toe about a n wild ld g goose se e. e and it WR waa a straightway demanded demand d l for or her herat her attraction at- at traction above abon that lint of or Aunt Jinsey th the h head ad nurse was sas that she could tell tel so man many stories about animals Hit was like l e she began Dey was as once a wild wid goose dat was laz lazy Wilt Wild Ill ge e Is mostly de tIe up- up UJ- UJ l an a folks foI 5 what de dey I Is but hut dis hyer Mr Ir Goo Goose e was wa ex us slow low ez molasses at Christmas When hen henIe they dey Ie got to fly ty a long long longa a ways s 's he set et on ond d de he ground an say he got de the backache backache backache back back- ache an do leg-ache leg an de do toe ache an aim more specially an mostly dc de wing h Dis-h Dis er Mr Goose Goose aint like to hunt for he rations Ono day da he come to a n plantation where ce dey keep tame lame same as al we-al do He lIe le fl fly down cam em dest lest like de do wild wid goose f fly down own dis this In ln an nn an help to what all al de ele udder fowls had to eat Huh he welt well he could say sy wel as us fur for bavin havin ln ha his mouth full ful you ou folks lives mi mighty ht fat Al At dat lat ol oh 11 Mr Gander he up tip tp au an whisper For Io I de ue gracious sak sake dont don't I Ilar say lar tat fat rat lIlts Hits de he trouble tremble o our cute OU I c lives livest I t It te keep from frum rome gittin fat tat nough dal dat eat do elo humans will wi be wanlin to lo eat cat us us I Mr 11 Wild id Goo Goose c aint hearken cn to tc todis te dis like hike h he ort lies He's els Ite ort lc's a great somebody somebody some some- body to lo brag brag hike Ilko leo most do 1 folks an lie he sot Fot In for Cor ci to toll toil tOi dem m tame tanie nm o 0 all ni do c wharfs he been an nn tell tel all de tie woman come comae for or to feed de do fowls fowl Sho She let lei on like she sho aint see ee 1 Mr Wild Jd Goose Goos at nil all ni case she sho aint want tant lo to skeet I him hil When hem she sho gone he lic m himself In de tie middle o 0 de pan pa pano I 0 o dough an eat eal tell lell tel 11 he lie most mosi choked I an an den he ho sa say sa Is dal dat what you call cal a human V 01 Do she wait walt pon you Ol wid yo yo o rations every tia da day Well Tell VeI I Ill I'll Il sm stay slay h hyer er Im I'm Im plumb wore to feathers an an bones tru round rounel an aim ln RO So 0 far Of OC course dis els aint no such place as Im I'm Im used to but r I Ill I'll Il sta stay V lilt Hit lf dest so o happen dat elat do tie very next day was wa goose time e. e You mind how Aunt Vimle Viney an Aunt Clot Clor- ind md ties tics tes up de dey hc heads cs an picks oft off or de IC gc geese se feathers to lo yo o piers S an nn beds The other children remembered It i well wel but Isabel was to sc see that ceremony core cere cCle- cCle mon mony for Cor the first time this springWell spring Well el honey de tIe ce woman come out wid her head te tied up an thrive drive de lIe inlo de do shed sited An n hull huh law lair I How How do de dey all 01 holler holier an run iun when dey Tc see what whal she gwine do ho What hat now ax Mr 11 Wild Ic Goose Ho lie l n a little bit bi UI uneasy ns like over de do looks o 0 things She lne g pull IHl our feathers out an nn him tote tole em er off oc old Mr ir Gander t toil lell 1 Is dat so 60 sot Mr 1 Wild Goose ax J 1 dont don't dat tat would agree vid wil my ray back ache nor j tb do elo any good to my myle le leg ache I hound bound hit gwine be bud for fOt my toe ache an aim de IC very thinks of or hit gives s me de ia de wing ach I Vid Ic dat elat ho Ito flog og he hc wings ho he do an aim al' al fly off to jine de do wild S But mind mine you ou he aint tell tel de do wild gc geese why he come como back He lie HeY say to lo low dem dat hyet dis place where ho lie stopped ile IC folks foliS was quality tot for tru true that dat dc dey had a waiter walter for fol to lo serve c du Icy cloy meals an de dey was so ce dey 10 change chante do de dey Tedders fedders l cr every ry spring an I more dan dnn dat hat dey eley lint had a a bOllY- bOllY body to take off or dc de e old fodders tedders for Cor or cam em m i lie He git de tie wild wid gooses In sick sich a leton nilion ni ad- le- le lion ton o de l. l place dat when ce dey come comno a pat hit de ele next fall Cal he dc dey all al light down In de do le barnyard Mr II Wild ll Goose In iii de middle middie o n do bunch hunch Now de tie man titan manhat what hat live Iho on dat cat plan plan- lallon got de ele same saute notion dat elat datye yo ye o pa a have have lie ho shoot a wild wid goose wherever cl h he can ean find hit lilt He lie Ic turn loose hoose on iii fn dem n cem wild wilI gee geese wid dc do gun gumm SUI but hut dc do onliest one he hl kill ki was do de lazy goose goo what tri an starve sarve nc I him good an right i S |
