
6 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The GOOSE is another bird of the Anaj \ 
genus. 
The beak is large, and femi-eylindric, that is, convex tag | 
raifed) and fmooth at the bafe. » 
Geefe are found in Europe, andin North Ame. ~ 
rica. They live to agreat age, fometimes feventy | 
or eighty years. There are many different kinds, | 
and moft of them are wild: their feathers are 
generally white, or white and grey. Great num. | 
bers are bred in Lincolnfhire. 
Some gofherds * keep an hundred, each of which 
perhaps will have feven young ones. Whilft they 
are fitting, they are in the fame houfe with the 
gotherd ; in every room he has three rows of 
wicker pens, one over another; the gofherd drives’ 
all his geefe twice a day to water, and brings them | 
back, and puts thofe who lay in the higkett pens, © 
in their proper places: he knows them all fo well, 
that he feldom makes a miftake ; for though wild 
geefe, and all wild fowl, of the fame kind, be , 
_ marked in the fame manner, yet all domeftic birds, 
or poultry, of the fame kind, become in time very 
differently marked, and no two are exactly alike ; 
fo that every man may know his owa from thofe 
of other people. 
* A Gofherd is a man who takes care of a flock of geefe; 
as a Shepherd is aman who takes cae of a flock of fheep. 
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