THE CANADA GOOSE. 



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Mopsus and his beauteous Nisa may try their 

 luck once more, at the bole of the superannuated 

 cherry-tree. I shall have all in readiness, and 

 shall be glad to see them. 



I certainly acted rashly, notwithstanding ap- 

 pearances, in holding this faithful couple up to 

 the ridicule of visitors who accompanied me to 

 the spot where the novel incubation was going 

 on. I have had a salutary lesson, and shall be 

 more guarded for the future in giving an opinion. 

 Information is always desirable, and is doubly 

 satisfactory when accompanied by a demonstra- 

 tion. Nine times out often, that, from the close 

 is to be preferred to that from the closet. In 

 the present instance, my speculation that a 

 progeny could not be produced from the union 

 of a Bernacle gander with a Canada goose has 

 utterly failed. I stand convinced by a hybrid, 

 reprimanded by a gander, and instructed by a 

 goose. 



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