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AXAS CAXADCNSIS. CANADA GOOSE. 



''H.iwnkl Iionk I and fui'ard to the lior'ax'd is the trumpet tone, 

 AVh.-it Gdose can lag, or feather ti.ig, or break the goodly cone, 

 llawnk I onward to the cool blue lakes where lie our safe love-bowers, 

 No stop, no drop of ocean brine, near stool or hassock hoary, 

 Our travelling watchword is ' our males, our goslings, and our glory !' 

 Symsonia and Labrador for us are crowned with flowers, 

 And not a breast on wave shall rest, until that heaven is ours. 



Hawnk! Hawnk! E— ellawnk!" 



This well-kiiowu Fowl is widely spread over the whole of 

 our country, and there are few portions of the United States 

 where the honking of the Wild Groose is not familiar to the 

 inhabitants. These Fowl, in their migrations South and North, 

 are considered the sure harbingers of dreary Winter, or the 

 near approach of cheerful Spring. They breed in the remotest 

 regions of the North, even perhaps under the very pole itself, 

 where, undisturbed by the cruel hands of man, they rear their 

 young in the most perfect security, and only leave those peace- 

 ful climes when driven from them by the severity of threatening 

 Winter. 



