The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-02-18
A Goose Story,

The following remarkable instance OF
the communication of ideas among the
lower animals is narrated by the Rev. Z.
Otway:
Al the -four mills of Tubberakeena,
near Clonmel, while in the possession OF
the late Mr. Newbold, there was goose
which, by some accident, was left soll-
tarv, without mate or offspring, gander,
or coslings. Now it happened, as is
common, that the miller's wife had set
number of duck-eggs under hen, which
in due time were incubated; and, OF
course, the ducklings, as soon as they
came forth, ran with natural instinct to
the water, and the hen was IN SAD
pucker-her maternity urging her to tol-
| low the brood and her instinct dlsposlng
her to keep on dry land.
ain the meanwhile up sailed the
goose, and with noisy gabble, when
certainly (being interpreted) meant
Leave them to my care she swan up
and down with the ducklings, and when
| they were tired with their aquatic excur,
sion she consigned them to the care OF
of the hen.
1.-The next morning down came again
the ducklings to the pond, and there was
the goose waiting for them, and there
stood the hen in her great Illustration
On this occasion we are not at all SURF
that the goose invited the hen, observing
her maternal trouble; but it is fact tina
she being near the shore the hen jumped
on her back, and there sat, the duck
lings swimming, and the goose and hel
: after them, up and down the pono.
"This was not a solitary event; ga,
after day the hen was seen on boaro IN
goose, attending the duckilngs up an
. down in perfect cOntentedness ana goo'
! humor-numbers of people coming I
witness the circumstance, which cor
: tinued until the ducklings, coming t
1 davs of discretion, required 30 longe
the Joint guardianship of the goose an
the hen"
v Only yesterday evening (Jan. 10, 1877
e received a remarkable corroboratlon
t the truth of this story. l was narratin
n it to a lady, who l found was perfectl
!. acquainted with the facts. She had hear
s the story told by friend of hers WI
y had witnessed the curious alliance b
J. tween the hen and the goose, and hs
n not the least idea that it had ever a
t. peared in print.
e There are one or two points about III
N narrative which are deserving OF motto
IS That language was employed by Il
,e goose, the hen and the ducklings Is e'
n- dent enough but it is a curious questl'
whether the ducklings understood I
"A hen better than the goose, or Dice GER
. | am rather inclined to think that Whef
=, her tries to call from the water the due
= Enrs which she has Matched she falls
. cause she does not know how to expr'
70 herself. Her own chickens would ne'
,e venture into the water, and she mas
- words in her vocabulary to suit the oc'
h | sion.
~ Ducklings understand duck W
no enough; but when they are in the wa
re. they do not pay the least attention to
on hen on the land, though she may nut
ON about in the greatest distress ana
nd every means in her power to call
nm foster-child rem to the shore. 1t seems
no this case as if the aquatic goose co
20 talk to the aquatic ducklings, both
ing the same expressions in their voc
ularies. 1t could take charge OF u
as it thought proper, and when the 9
arrived order them to the shore and
lty liver them over to the hen. Ihey
ere not obey, or did not understand, the
dor when she called them to come on sh'
of but they both understood and ODE
her the goose.
zee, That there was also language
,ws mon to both parties is evident from
ady action adopted by the hen. She c.
ger. not have sat ON the back OF the g
and unless invited by the latter, which
an bird possessed of great intellectual
Irge ers-HayDer's Weeklu.