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Concord, Mass.
1916.

Perhaps this very dissimilarity formed the chief basis of
their romantic friendship, just as the so-termed
"attraction of opposites" is thought to promote human
relations of corresponding kind so often entered into happily
by persons altogether unlike and otherwise seemingly unsuited to
get on well together
  After passing their first winter in the large poultry yard
the Goose and Guinea-hen were removed early next spring to
a sort of aviary built against the shed-end of our farm
house and partly under a projection of its roof but
elsewhere having no better protection against the weather than
that afforded by wire netting overspread with grape vines.
Here they lived contentedly enough for several months, in
close companionship - for the ground space was limited -
with three Mallard Ducks, half a dozen domestic fowl
of various kinds and about thrice as many white Pigeons.