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in fact, any kind of goose was so. He also put aside 

 the evidence of Father Damien (earlier than the Irish 

 story of Giraldus) referring the goose-tree to an island 

 in the Indies, and the report cited in the Oriental 

 book the " Zohar." However plausible Max Muller's 

 theory may have appeared, it absolutely crumbles and 

 disappears in the presence of the Mykenaean pictures of 

 "barnaculized" geese, and trees budding birds — two 

 thousand years older than the Irish record, and nearly 

 three thousand years earlier than the essay of the charm- 

 ing and persuasive professor. 



