What happened to him after he landedwhether he cooked the colonel's goose or the colonel cooked hisI really could not afford to consider.

They have a saying, whose purport might be rendered in the proverbial language of the Aryans by saying that the liar "kills the goose that lays the golden eggs."

Often have I thought of that excellent old adage; He that eats the king's goose, shall be choked with his feathers.

In this valley between Daroshp and Gobor, I noticed several detached oval ponds, evidently artificial, which I was told were constructed for catching wild geese and ducks during their annual flight to India just before the winter sets in, i.e., about the middle of October.

Here he paused; but when the marten only grinned impudently at him, he continued: "Can it be possible that you haven't seen the wild geese that stand under the mountain wall?

He flies to his garret bedroom, seizes his goose-quill and paper, and sits down.

Did I never carve a goose?

"It happened last year while we were making our usual spring trip," remarked the leader-goose.

And, in turn, he whispered in my ear: "I should have given her to you all the same, you big goose; butkeep the story of the helmet between us two!" I give you my word that I have never told it but to Rose, my dear little wife.

In England the goose is sacred to St. Michael; in Scotland, where dainties were not going every day, "'Twas Christmas sent its savoury goose.

But were intrinsic merit seen, We turkeys have the whiter skin.' From tongue to tongue they caught abuse; And next was heard the hissing goose: 'What hideous legs!

You don't know anything about the state of Dave's appetite, when he shot that goose, and you can't predict with certainty that we'll soon come to the place where he made it ready for the eating.

"Does he belong to the elf family?" asked the leader-goose.

Enter, from a farmyard near by, a THIRD PEASANT carrying a goose.]

Everything remained unchanged in the forestabout as long as it takes a goose to eat her breakfast.

Then people could buy an ox for 20s., a sheep for 3s., a calf for 2s., a goose for 6d., a capon for 4d., a hen for 2d., a pig for the same, and all other household provisions at a like rate.

He recalls a humorous incident which occurred when he was a child and had been introduced for the first time to the task of picking a goose.

Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of courseand in truth it was something very like it in that house.

"You once played the goose-game with me, now I have begun to play the fox-game with you; and I'm not inclined to let up on it so long as a single one of you still lives even if I have to follow you the world over!"

Tugboat Annie plucks a goose.

Ez wut it is ou'-doors, ef I ain't blind, An' sometimes, in the fairest sou'west weather, My innard vane pints east for weeks together, My natur' gits all goose-flesh, an' my sins Come drizzlin' on my conscience sharp ez pins:

"She gets it from her father," answered Adelaide, and her expression added, "you dreadful old goose.

She begged the wild geese to fly to her home before travelling farther north, that she might let her family see that she was still alive.

that the Lord of the Manor of Essington, shall bring a goose every New year's day, and drive it round the fire in the hall at Hilton, at least three times, whilst Jack of Hilton is blowing the fire.

Moral: Never lie to save a little goose.