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favorable weather, will make good weights py late fall, 
especially if given extracare and food. hese late birds 
make excellent eating about Christmas-time. The goose 
usually makes her own nest, though it is well to help 
Fig. 83.—Palr OF TOULOUSE. 
her a little. She is a careful and constant mother, but 
her love for the water must be restrained until the gos- 
lings are a few weeks old, for many dangers, in the form 
of musk-rats, snakes, turtles, etc., lurk at the water’s 
edge. 
