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ANEcDoTE OF GoosE.-At the -four mills
of Cubberaheena, near Clonmel, while in the
possession of the late Mr.. Newhold, there was
goose which, by some accident, had been left
solitary, without mate or offspring, gander or
goslings. Now, it happened, as is common,
that the mler's wife had set number of duck
eggs under hen, which in due time were in
cubated, and of course the duckings, as soon
as they came forth, ran with natural instinct
to the water, and the hen was in a sad pucker,
her maternity urging her to follow the brood,
and her selfshness disposing her to keep on
dry land. In the meanwhile, up sailed the
goose, and with noisy gable, which certain
ly meant, (being Unexpectedly leave them to
my care. She swan up and down with the
ducklngs, and when they were tired with their
aquatic excursions she consigned them to the
care Of the hen. The next morning down
came again the ducklings to the pond and there
was the goose waiting for them, and there
stood the hen in great Illustration. On this
occasion, we are not at all sure that the goose
ble-but it is fact, she being near the shore,
the hen jumped on her back, and there sat, the
ducklings swimming, and the goose and hen
after them up and down the pond. And this
was not solitary event day after day the hen
was seen on board the goose, attending the
ducklings up and down, in perfect contented-
ness and good humor-numbers of people
coming to witness the circumstance, which
continued until the ducklings coming to days
of discretion, required no longer the guardian
ship of the goose and the ben.--Dablin Mag.
asine.