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wognostio of severe weather. Those which continue all 

 irinter frequent the shallow bays and marsh islands ; theii 

 principal food being the broad, tender, green leaves of a 

 marine plant which grows on stones and shells, and is 

 usually called sea cabbage ; and also the roots of the sedge, 

 which they are frequently observed in the act of tearing up. 



The Wild Goose, when in good order, weighs from ten to 

 twelve, and sometimes fourteen pounds. They are sold r -> 

 the Philadelphia markets at from seventy-five cents to on 

 dollar each; and are estimated to yield half-a-pound o\ 

 feathers apiece, which produces twenty-five or thirty cent 

 nore. 



The Canada Goose is now domesticated in numerous 

 quarters of the country, and is remarked for being extremely 

 watchful, and more sensible of approaching changes in the 

 atmosphere than the common gray goose. In England, 

 France, and Germany, they have also been long ago 

 domesticated. 



ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTE. 



Mr. Piatt, a respectable farmer on Long Island, being 

 out shooting in one of the bays, which, in that part of the 

 country, abound with water-fowl, wounded a Wild Goofc. 

 Being wing-tipped, and unable to fly, he caught it, and 

 brought it home alive. It proved to be a female; and, 

 turning it into his yard, with a flock of tame geese, it soon 

 became quite tame and familiar, and in a little time itf 



