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and with the latter, such as attempt to 
stray, are caught by the neck and kept in 
order ; or if lame they are put into an hos~ 
pital cart, which usually follows each 
large drove. In this manner they perform 
their journies from distant parts, and are 
said to get forward at the rate of eight 
or ten miles a day, from three in the 
morning till nine at night." 
It is said (but the tale savours too much 
of the marvellous) that among the villages 
of the Cossacks, subject to Russia, on the 
river Don, the Geese leave their homes, in 
March or April, as soon as the ice breaks 
up, and the pairs joining each other, take 
flight in a body to the remote northern 
lakes, where they breed and constantly 
reside during the summer ; and that on the 
beginning of winter, the parent birds, with 
their multiplied young progeny, all return, 
and divide themselves, every flock alighting 
at the door of the respective place to 
which it belongs. 
Many instances of attachment, and 
even gratitude, have been recorded of this 
species. 
