ANAS CANADENSIS. CANADA GOOSE. 



'♦ Hawnk ! honk ! and for'ard to the nor'ard is the trumpet-tone ! 

 What goose can lag, or feather flag, or break the goodly cone ? 

 Hawnk I onward to the cool blue lakes where lie our safe love-bowers, 

 No stop, no drop of ocean-brine, near stool or hassock hoary, 

 Our travelling watchword is ' our mates, our goslings, and our glory /' 

 Synisonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers, 

 And not a breast on wave shall rest, until that heaven is ours. 



Hawnk ! Hawnk ! E — e Hawnk !" 



, ILD GEESE are widely spread over the 

 whole of the country; and there are 

 few portions of the United States where 



, ' the lionking of the goose is not familiar 

 to the inhabitants. These fowl, in their 



L migrations south and north, are con- 



sidered the sure harbingers of dreary 

 winter or the near approach of cheerful 



spring. They breed in the remotest regions of the North, even 



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