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ten. When the Goslings are hatched, they are kept 
in a warm place for about four or five days, and 
fed on barley-meal, mixed, if possible, with milk, 
and then they will begin to graze. 
Thus much for the attention due to the Goose 
fpr its pecuniary worth ; hut beyond this, it has 
qualities, we might almost say, of the mind, of a 
very singular character: we mean, the unaccountable 
constancy and affection which it has been known to 
show not only to its own species, and to other birds 
and animals, but more particularly to man. And it 
is not improbable, that these qualities, which, as we 
shall soon show, were known to the ancients, might 
have rendered it an object of high esteem, and even 
in some cases sacred, as, for instance, it was to Juno, 
the queen of their idol gods. 
We shall briefly illustrate this part of our history 
by examples drawn from various sources, ancient as 
well as modern, corroborating them with a case 
which occurred in our own neighbourhood. 
We have just mentioned, that this bird was held 
sacred to Juno, and we have good reason for sup- 
posing, that by the Gauls, an ancient and barbarous 
people, inhabiting the northern and western parts of 
Europe, it was held in almost equal estimation. 
How long this continued we do not know ; hut, at 
the time of the Crusades, that famous expedition 
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 hands proceeding from Europe to 
Asia, with the design of rescuing the city of Jeru- 
salem from the hands of the Saracens. Of its 
