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Show THE SACRED GOOSE. Jt IT -was Frazlcr, of the Golden Bough, who suggested M that the reverence felt for various creatures lu all M paits of the world Is a survival of totemlsm. Since H that time plenty of evidence has accumulated. Caesar H mentions, as almost any schoolboy wjll recall, chat. M tho Inhabitant.-- of Britain might not oat of the hare, , H tho cock and tho goose. In tho second case the super- t M stitlon Is quite lost probably, but legendary records M keep tho memory of It in Ireland. '( H Of other examples, however, enough can bo found M even at the present day. At a place in Lancashire; ' H IJngliind. there h held at times a "goose fair," so called H apparently because gooe Is rigorously forbidden. It M Is even assorted that the Inhabitants think the goose H too sacred lo eat or did so not so long ago. B This same feeling about thc goose ruled in Uie ll Hebrides and other parts of Scotland. Wherever . H Buddhism rules the goose is venerated, therefore It Is H u loading motif In Uie art of Japan and a symbol of, H peace and happiness Jn China. Figures of geese are, M as Indispensable at a Chinese wedding as is wedding j tM cake with us. In both countries, as also in Burma H and Slam, weights are , made In the shape of a goose ( IH In token of good faith, though the connection Is not H obvious. But In ancient Bgypt the same custom ruled, H such weights being found among the first dtecovorlo f M at Nlnovoh A row of gigantic geese surrounds tho M great Buddhist temple of AnaJaKMra. The devout' cherish a fond fancy that all goeso perform an aerial 1 pilgrimage to the holiest of lakes in the Illmalayns vwry year, transporting the sins of the nelghborhoodv M returning with a new stock of Inspiration for fcha oh- H counigcinent of local piety. 4' H Ifvw believe at Uie present day that the Boman,' H capital was saved pj the quack of a goose, but If , H the story Is not true It becomes all the more signltl- M caift In tho rolk lorlst's point of view as showing that,"- M Uie. fowl was specially revered In the primitive Jt M ago, of Homo. The Crusaders under Walter tho Pcnnl j M less, souic 100.GQ0 souls, so It Is claimed, piously fol- M Ioy1 u goaso and a goat marching in tho van nudW H what a mess those holy animals led them Into! tT- Kgypt Uio goose was the cnibloui of .-seb, father,' t M l)sh-ls. A preeloiiH figure of It Is extant Inscribed ' H "The Good Gooso Greatly Belo ed." M |