CONCORD 
1916 
It has long been known, of course, that animals 
not specifically related and perhaps very unlike sometimes 
Ai^^vian 
become strongly attached to each other, especially when in 
Romance 
captivity and rather closely confined. An interesting 
The Goose 
instance of this first came to my notice upwards of a year 
ago. It resulted indirectly from chance perusal of a 
and the 
dealer's catalogue wherein "fancy fowls" in bewildering 
Guinea-hen 
variety and of apparently rare attractiveness or remark¬ 
able utility were alluringly pictured aud described. There 
were also so-called "settings" of their eggs. Being par¬ 
ticularly tempted by the latter, I purchased rather many — 
at appropriately "fancy" prices. Plymouth Rock hens 
incubated them at our farm in Concord v/ith admirable fidelity 
but not much success. Of the few that hatched, one pro¬ 
duced a gosling said to have originated flrom an "African 
Goose", another a Guinea-fov/1 chick -- each sole represen¬ 
tative of its kind then and there brought into the world. 
This happened a.bout July 10, during my absence from 
Concord. 
Both birds were soon afterwards put into a. small, 
grass-grown enclosure which had no other occupant save one 
of the foster-mothers already mentioned and she had been 
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removed when I first saw them there — on August 30. They 
were then more than one-half grown and already well- 
feathered. We separated them a month or so later, placing 
the Goose in a large poultry yard tenanted by about fifty 
