GOOD WORDS 



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GOOSE 



Goora Nut. Foliage, flowers, and seeds 

 (also in section) of the African tree 



ginning on a Tuesday. The course 

 is situated on the Downs adjoining 

 Goodwood Park. The meeting, in- 

 augurated in 1802, is one of the 

 principal society functions of the 

 London season. See Horse Racing. 



Good Words. English monthly 

 illustrated religious magazine. Es- 

 tablished in 1860 by Alexander 

 Strahan, and published at 6d., its 

 first editor was Norman Macleod, 

 on whose death in 1872 Donald 

 Macleod became editor. Its writers 

 and illustrators included many 

 eminent men and women. It later 

 passed into the hands of Isbister 

 and Co., from whom it was acquired 

 by The Amalgamated Press, and 

 issued as a penny weekly. In 191 1 

 it was amalgamated with The 

 Sunday Companion. 



Goole. Market town, urban 

 district, and seaport of Yorkshire 

 (W.R.). It stands on the Ouse, 

 just where it is joined by the Don, 

 25 m. S.W. of Hull, the two ports 

 being under a joint port sanitary 

 authority. It is served by the N. E. 

 and L. & Y. Rlys., and has extensive 

 modern docks. Steamers go from 

 here to Hull, and to several ports 

 of the European continent. Its 

 industries include shipbuilding, 

 engineering works, flour mills, 

 chemical works, artificial manure 

 manufactures, etc. Coal is its chief 

 article of export. It is situated in 

 a fine agricultural neighbourhood. 



The principal build- 

 ing is the church 

 of S. John ; there 

 is a free library 

 and market hall. 

 The council owns 

 the gas and water 

 undertakings. Goole 

 owes its growth to 

 the opening of a 

 canal, part of the 

 Aire and Calder 

 Navigation system, 

 in 1826. Pop. 20,330. 

 Goora Nut. 

 Seed of an ever- 





Goole, Yorkshire. 



green tree (Cola 

 acuminata), of the 

 natural order Sterculiaceae. It is 

 a native of tropical Africa. The 

 tree is about 40 ft. high and has 

 large, leathery, oblong leaves, 

 pointed at each end, and sprays of 

 pale yellow flowers. The seeds, 

 about the size of horse chestnuts, 

 are contained in pod-like follicles. 

 They are used as a condiment, a 

 small piece also being chewed before 

 a meal to improve the flavour of 

 the viands. Goora is said to make 

 , half -putrid water drinkable. 



Goosander (Mergus merganser). 

 Diving duck. It visits the N. of 

 Scotland, and occasionally breeds 

 there. The male is black on 

 the back and white beneath, with 

 a greenish head, red beak, and 

 pinkish breast, and is about 26 ins. 

 long. In winter it migrates to 

 Southern Europe and Asia. The 

 name is probably an abbreviation 

 of goose-gander, as merganser of 

 Lat. mergus, diver; anser, goose. 



Goose. Name applied rather 

 indefinitely to include various 

 genera of the order Anseres, which 

 includes also ducks and swans. 

 Some of these genera are so closely 

 connected by intermediate forms 

 with swans and ducks that it is 

 difficult to indicate any clear line 

 of demarcation. About 40 species 

 are called geese : but the typical 

 geese are usually restricted to 

 eleven species. Broadly speaking, 

 eese are smaller than swans, and, 



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with certain exceptions, larger than 

 ducks. Their necks are shorter 

 than the body and their beaks are 

 never longer than the head. They 

 are heavy, strong birds, much less 

 aquatic in habit than either ducks 

 or swans. Of British wild geese, the 

 grey lag (Anser cinereus) and the 

 bean goose (A. segetum) are the 

 best known, the former breeding in 

 the N. of Scotland and Ireland. 

 But in the main British wild geese 



Goosander. Specimen of Mergus 

 castor, a diving duck 



are only winter visitors, retiring 

 farther N. in spring for nesting 

 purposes. 



The domestic goose is descended 

 from the grey lag, with which it 

 will interbreed, and was evidently 

 domesticated at a very early period, 



Goose. 



Varieties ot the wild and domesticated birds. Left to right, Emden goose ; Toulouse goose, both domesticated : 

 Bean goose, Anser segetum, a British wild species 



