No archer ever lived that could speed a gray goose shaft with such skill and cunning as his, nor were there ever such yeomen as the sevenscore merry men that roamed with him through the greenwood shades.

Was it not rather perverse that the very fact of having been a little goose should help her to win so rare a swan?

Season a fat goose with salt and pepper, and rub well with vinegar.

To think that his strength should fail him now, so he wouldn't be able to show these tramps that even a tame goose was good for something!

Do you think I'm a silly old goose to keep them cluttering around so long?" "Wa'al,"Abe with an equally deprecatory gesture indicated Angy's horsehair trunk in the far corner of the loft,"yew ain't no more foolisher, I guess, over yer old trash 'n me an' Angy be a-keepin' that air minin' stock of mine.

Bank-notes were exchanged for Cochin chicks, and Cochin eggs were in as great demand as though they had been laid by the fabled golden goose.

"You stupid goose," said she, "the opening is big enough.

Both the wild geese and the gray geese and the loons swam out between the banks, laid themselves in a ring around the swans and stared at them.

The favors were knots of mistletoe and holly, and a roasted goose held the place of honor upon the table.

The cooked goose.

It may be that you are simply a sentimental goose who imagines her husband is "influenced" away from her, because, forsooth, he does not pay her the attentions he used to.

THE WILD GOOSE.This bird is sometimes called the "Gray-lag" and is the original of the domestic goose.

The grey goose of Kilnevin.

All the time I was at the E. I. H. I never mended a pen; I now cut 'em to the stumps, marring rather than mending the primitive goose-quill.

"Then, after rejoicing over the tender goose and his renewed strength, he suddenly became very cautious.

"Stupid, inquisitive goose!" replied the dwarf; "I meant to split the trunk, so that I could chop it up for kitchen sticks; big logs would burn up the small quantity of food we cook, for people like us do not consume great heaps of food, as you heavy, greedy folk do.

Maybe we could find a juicy goose or duck this morning.

Do you remember the old fairy story of the man who carried a magic goose, and everyone who touched it, or touched anyone who touched it, could not leave go, with the result that there was a long train of helpless people trotting about behind the man.

Pour a little melted goose-oil or butter over this, and sprinkle the bread, sugar, almonds, cherries, etc., over it; roll the strudel together into a long roll.

The chirping of the cricket, the song of the lark, the call of the sentinel crane, the watchword with which the migratory geese keep their squadrons together, the howling of jackals, the lowing of cows, the hum of the hive, the chatter of the drawing-room, and a hundred other voices in forest and field and town remind us that the voice and the ear are the pair of wheels on which society runs.

The son of the burgomaster had seen, before he went out, a monstrous goose that the truffles marked with black spots like a leopard.

There as I past with careless steps and slow, The mingling notes came softened from below; The swain responsive as the milk-maid sung, The sober herd that lowed to meet their young, The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school, The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering wind,

On her red claws despondent swimming, The plump goose parts the water cold, Then on the ice with caution stalking She slips and tumbles,ah behold!

a powdered goose roasted.

Davis was now spitting in the Presidential spittoon, and scribbling his distiches with the nib of the Presidential goose-quill.