Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 462
th into that intrud-ing bill, and tried to pull it farther in. Thegander, much taken aback at this turn of affairstried to pull it out again. For perhaps half aminute, it was a very good tug of war. Then thesuperior weight and strength of the great bird,with all the advantage of his beating wings,… … HE LIFTED HIS WIDE GRAY-AND-WHITE WINGS AND CHARGED. 296 THE ADVENTURES OF YOUNG GRUMPY [Feb., and his grip relaxed. He made a groping rushfor the burrow; but in that same instant, theganders great bill seized him by the back of theneck and lifted him high into the air. This was very near being the…
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