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PafagouiiJi! and Egyptian Gccsc. 
year two geese nested; one had her nest destroyed by rats, and 
the others' eggs I removed and put under a hen. One young- 
one only was hatched, and this is now nearly as large as its 
mother. I found that whilst with the hen it would eat almost 
anything- that she did, whereas those left with their parents in 
previous years would eat nothing but grass- When the little 
one was about six weeks old, the hen started laying, and went 
off one day to her old home to deposit her egg in lier old 
nesting-box. The gosling followed, and of coui»se got lost, 
and all our efforts to find it proved unsuccessful. Two days 
later, after we had given up all hopes of seeing it again, a l)oy 
