Comparative physiognomy; or, Resemblances between men and animals (1852)
Redfield, James W · New York, Redfield · leaf 224
x THE GOOSE. 221 slander, to burning out mens eyes, and to whatever else Sub-terfuge might be supposed to engage in. The goose salutesyou with the only means that is left her to vent the slander … of her serpent-tongue, a hiss, and she runs at you from be-hind with a serpentine movement; and the least objectiona-ble of all the manifestations of this faculty is her fondness forgabbling. This was the charac-ter of the female progenitor ofthe three princes whose portraitsare given on this and…
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