THE FATE OF A GOOSE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 10 October 1891, Page 475

THE FATE OF A GOOSE.

A GOOSE once attached herself in the strangest way to a dog. The dog had saved her life from a fox, and that was thought to be the reason of her affection. She sat beside him all day, only leaving him at feeding time, and returning immediately. If the dog went walking, she followed, flying to keep up when bis four legs got ahead of her two. When she sat near him she never offered to go into the kennel except in rainy weather. If the dog barked, the goose cackled, and ran at the person she supposed he wanted to attack, biting at their heels. She would have eaten with the dog if he had allowed it, but he would not permit the familiarity. At night she had to be driven by force to roost with the other fowls. If she was turned into another field, she would sit by the fence within sight of the dog. When the animal was taken ill she sat beside him, and would have starved if her food had not been brought, for she refused to leave his side.

Poor goose ! Her fate was a hard one. The dog died, and the goose sat lonely. And when a new dog was placed in the kennel, and she walked up to her accustomed place, the new dog caught her by the throat and killed her. So much for being a goose !