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serves. It is a real honest-to-goodness native 

 and I am glad that it bears the name of a very- 

 noteworthy American bird. In a few years, un- 

 less otherwise instructed, our children will 

 think of a wild goose as a variety of plum only; 

 for the bird is rapidly passing to the realm of 

 memory^ 



