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prognostic of severe weather. Those which continue all 
winter frequent the shallow hays and marsh islands ; their 
principal food being the broad, tender, green leaves of a 
marine plant which grows on stones and shells, and is 
usually called sea cabbage ; and also the roots of the sedge, 
which they are frequently observed in the act of tearing up. 
The Wild Goose, when in good order, weighs from ten to 
twelve, and sometimes fourteen pounds. They are sold in 
the Philadelphia markets at from seventy-five cents to one 
dollar each ; and are estimated to yield half-a-pound of 
feathers apiece, which produces twenty-five or thirty cents 
more. 
The Canada Goose is now domesticated in numerous 
quarters of the country, and is remarked for being extremely 
watchful, and more sensible of approaching changes in the 
atmosphere than the common gray goose. In England, 
France, and Germany, they have also been long ago 
domesticated. 
ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTE. 
Mr. Platt, a respectable farmer on Long Island, being 
out shooting in one of the bays, which, in that part of the 
country, abound with water-fowl, wounded a Wild Goose. 
Being wing-tipped, and unable to fly, he caught it, and 
brought it home alive. It proved to be a female; and, 
turning it into his yard, with a flock of tame geese, ic soon 
became quite tame and familiar, and in a little time its 
