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abroad through the crowd and bustle of the High- 

 street. It would attend him to the hair-dresser's 

 shop, and patiently wait till he was shaved, after 

 which, accompanying him to the shop of another 

 person, proceeding thence home with him, cheek by 

 jowl. This affectionate bird never fails to recognize 

 its master under whatever change of dress ; knowing 

 also his voice, though not seeing him ; and no sooner 

 does he speak, than it responds to him, in its own 

 unintelligible dialect. Had Butler been aware of a 

 faculty like the above in the goose, he probably, 

 would not have berhymed it to the following pur- 

 port 



" Art has no enemies 



Next the ignorant, but owls and geese." 



It is asserted that, at the great goose-feeders near 

 London, the stock is fed upon the purest and best 

 food, kept in the highest state of cleanliness, and 

 that they are among the finest and best with which 

 the metropolis is supplied. I can neither controvert 

 nor warrant this, but have no doubt but that the 

 reader may depend on the following statement with 

 which I have been lately furnished, by an eye-wit- 

 ness. 



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