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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



And, besides that, were beautiful and touching illustrations of 

 the omnipotent tyranny of love over the wildest wanderers of 

 wild-goosedom. 



«' Quis enim modus adsit amori ? " — Virgil. 



" What limit to the power of love ?" Shakspearc says, — 



" It may transform a man into an oyster." 



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What man or gander can oppose a breast adamantine enough 

 to stop a single bolt from Cupid's bow ? Your committee, in 

 their day, have had experience of some pretty tough samples 

 of goose-breast, but none whose 



"tough, impracticable heart, 

 "Was proof against great Cupid's dart." — Old l^ocm. 



These birds, too, proved conclusively that Tom Moore had 

 more poetry than truth in his noddle when he sang, — 



" The bird let loose in Eastern skies, 

 When hastening fondly home, 

 Ne'er stoops t<> earth his wing, nor flics 

 Where idle warblers roam." 



