Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 188
; I spect he pick up an de trouble o our lives to keep from gittin fatgo when he gits him a good bait o cane-seed, nough dat sometimes dese- Mebbe he 11 stay a weekhyer wild fellers does. As they turned back to the house, Americaannounced that she knew a tale about a wildgoose, and it was… … THERE he stood, slim and dark and differently shaped from the other geese. Hit was like dis, she began. Dey wasonce a wild goose dat was lazy. Wild geesesis mostly de uppinest an a-doinest folks whatdey is; but dis-hyer Mr. Goose was ez slow ezmolasses at Christmas. When dey got to fly along ways,…
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