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know ; but, at the time of tbe Crusades, that famous expe- 
dition undertaken by our ancestors in the reign of Henry the 
Second, about six hundred and fifty years ago, a Goose was 
carried as a standard at the head of one of those irregular 
bands proceeding from Europe to Asia, with the design of 
rescuing the city of Jerusalem from the hands of the Saracens. 
Of its attachment to the human race, Pliny, an ancient Eoman 
writer, gives several instances ; one only we select, as closely 
resembling that with which we shall conclude. A person 
named Lacydes, a philosopher, had a Goose which took so 
strong a fancy to him, that it would never willingly leave 
him by night or day, — wherever he went, the Goose was his 
companion; if he went abroad and walked in the public 
streets, the bird followed him, and, in his own house, always 
forced itself into his presence. The philosopher, struck with 
this constant and strange attachment, seems to have con- 
sidered it as in some way or other connected with religious 
feelings, and accordingly, when at last he died, he was at the 
expense of bestowing upon it a magnificent funeral. 
Our next instance occurred in Scotland ; a Goose, a year 
old, formed a similar attachment to a person in Elgin, and 
would follow him any distance, even through the crowd and 
hustle of the main street. One day, when going down this 
street, its master went into a hair- dresser’s shop to be 
shaved, whereupon the bird waited patiently till the operation 
was finished, and then accompanied him to the house of a 
friend, after which it proceeded home with him. Change of 
dress seemed to make no difference in the bird’s powers of 
distinguishing its master, for in whatever dress he appeared, 
the Goose recognised him, and wdienever he spoke, it re- 
sponded by a cry expressive of satisfaction. 
Another similar case is on record in Germany : an aged 
blind woman, who probably might have been in the habit of 
feeding it, used to be led every Sunday to church by a 
Gander, taking hold of her gown with its bill; when she 
had seated herself, it retired to graze in the churchyard till 
she came out again, when it led her home. One day, the 
clergyman called at her house, and, expressing his surprise 
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