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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[April, 
THE GEESE AND THE SPITZ™ Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
Here is a pic-ture for our ver-y lit-tle 
friends who are just learn-ing to read. 
What does this pic-ture 
show ? There are some 
geese and a dog. You 
know that geese are ver-y 
big birds, and when they 
are cross they make a 
.great hiss-ing, but they 
do not bite or scratch. 
These geese have liv-ed 
so long on the farm 
that they thought they 
were the own-ers of it ; 
sil-ly things you will 
say, but the goose has 
long been known as a 
sil-ly bird. One day the 
man who own-ed the 
farm brought home a 
new dog. It was a Spitz- 
dog. D o .y ou kn o w wh at 
kind of dogs the Spitz 
They are most al- 
white, with nice, 
clean, silk-y hair, and a 
fine tail; the Spitz has 
a ver-y sharp nose, and 
small, bright eyes that 
have a ver-y know-ing 
look. He is quick to 
learn, and may be taught 
man-y nice tricks. This Spitz, which 
the farm-er brought home, went to look 
ft the farm. As he went through a 
gate the 
geese saw 
like to see a strange 
him, and did not 
dog on the place, 
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•tired little robbie xnd HIS grahdpa. —(See page 149). 
so the old geese put out their necks and 
said hiss-ss-ss. Do you think the Spitz 
would care for that ? Not a bit, but he 
went on just as if the geese had done 
noth-ing. After a few days the geese 
were sor-ry that they 
hiss-ed at the Spitz, 
because a bad strange 
dog came and be-gan to 
bark at and wor-ry the 
geese. When the Spitz 
heard the noise, he for¬ 
got how rude the geese 
were to him, and drove 
off the bad dog. Do 
you not think the geese 
must have felt ver-y 
fool-isli when they saw 
the dog they had hiss-ed 
athelp-ingthem ? When 
you see a boy or girl 
mak-ing fa-ces, or say¬ 
ing rude things to a 
strange boy or girl, you 
will see that they act 
ver-y much like these 
geese, and if no one 
takes no-tice of them 
they will stop. Do you 
know wdiy these dogs 
are call-ed Spitz-dogs ? 
We were told that it is 
a Ger-man name. In 
Ger-man the word for 
sharp or point-ed is 
spitz, and as these dogs have ver-y sharp 
and point-ed nos-es, they were call-ed 
spitz-dogs. 
