cm ora NATURAL HISTORY 
“The GOOSE is s another bird of the Anas 
_ genus. 
T He beak is large, and femi- eplindt, that 1 is, convex (or 
raifed) and fmooth at the bafe. 
Geefe are found in Europe, and in North Ame- 
rica, They live to a great 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 youngones. Whilft they 
are fitting, they are in the fame houfe with the 
‘gofherd; 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 highe® pens, : 
in their proper places : he knows them all fo well, 
_ thatihe feldom makes a miftake; for though wild 
geeley 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 own from thofe 
, of other ‘people. | 
e.. A Gotherd i is aman who takes care pt aflock of 2 a 
as a Shepherd i is aman who takes cate of a flock of fheep, — 
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