116 ANECDOTE OF A GOOSE. 



with his other stock, but made a present of it to the 

 in-coming tenant, that the venerable fowl might ter- 

 minate its career on the spot where its useful life had 

 been spent such a length of days. 



The following singular trait of a sincere attach- 

 ment to man, was communicated to me by a respect- 

 able correspondent of N. B. In March of the pre- 

 sent year, 1829, Mr. Burnett, Craigellachie Inn, 

 Elgin, had a goose nearly a year old, that formed 

 so strong an attachment to him, as to follow him 

 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 contro- 



