The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-11-13
HERE is A GOOD GOOSE sTosyl
Flowers Destroyed, Chickens Killed. Mnl
Unset. and a School Depopuiated.

Flowers Destroyed, Chickens Killed. MNH56
Upset, and School Depopuiated.
Mrs John Waller, who lives on the Crest
cent hill road, bought gray goslin@ OF tht
female gender some time ago and placed II In
her small back yard. During its adolesccnt
period the gosling behaved itself well, but re-
Gently, when it developed into full grown
goose, the spirit of mischief entered It's soul
It is a we'll known fact that goose has
great taste for grass, and Mrs. Walters back
ward was soon swept clean Of vegetation lhe
owner clipped the gooses wings to preventits
aying. and fed it with bran and meal bui
one night it got out into the front yard. ate hall
the grass, and destroyed all the flower ocds.
A sympathizing neighbor told Mrs Waller
she had better kill the goose but she couio
not make up her mind to do SO she ioVeo
the goose in spite of its waywardneSS, and
she confined it again in the back yard Iwe
days later her 4-year-o!d girl, while playing
in the back yard, was attacked ana received
several severe blows in the face from the
sharp bill of the goose. This decidcH Mrs
Waller. The goose must die. Her i4-year
old boy Jim captured it and attempted oocuf
its head off with an axe, but the goose man
aged to escape, and its wing feathers having
grown out again it few over the. tence anc
out Of sight
This, it was thought, would be the last OF
the goose, but it had an affection tor the
neighborhood of its youth and returned te
plague the people In one night it devastated
three front yards, and when the indignant
owner Of one of them on the following morn
ing detected the goose in its work OF vandal'
ism the bird gave q squawk and few across
a common to a place of safety. The afternoon
of the same day it entered the dairy sted OF
Pat Welch and overturned cans containing
at least fifty gallons of milk. One of Wclcht
children saw the goose and attempted tc
drive it away, but it few at the child SC
fercely that the latter fled in terror.
The last outrage committed by the goos
aroused the neighborhood. and the people de
termined that it should be extelninated
They hunted for it individually and collect
iyelv. A man named Washburn saw it enter
his back yard and gave chase The goos
did not ly, but confined itself to running
There was method in its flight. 1t wanted to
have fun with Washburn- The retreat led
across ditch four feet deep, and WaShburr
in his haste stumbled into it, spraining hisan
kle 50 severely that he is still unable to walk
without crutches He says that when be fell
in the goose came back to the ditch anG
looked at him c-s
In the quiet suburb whcr9> Mes. Waller's
goose made its habitat th good people on
washday were in tls-aah of hanging out
their clothes on q line in the back yard &c
dry. At least they did so until the goose
concluded that the custom should be broken
up, and invested itself with plenary power:
to accomplish that purpose 1t pulled all the
clothes off the line in one yard, dragged them
in the dirt, and tore some Of them to ribbons.
A second yard was served in a similar man
ner, and third was attacked, when a party
Of indignant women rescued the clothes anc
drove the goose away.
A reward of $40 was offered for the capture
Of the goose, dead or alive. 1t was subse.
ouently raised to so, but this goose had more
lives than Snarleyow. 1t was shot at dozer
times, but was never touched. It seemed tc
soorn its pursuers Itwas never in any haste
to get away from them, and tantalized them
by keeping in sight, but just out Of reach.
All the small boys were after that goose, and
many Of the men Joined them in the chase.
The man Welch, whose dairy had been
entered, shot at the goose and killed bis
neighbor's calf, which was feeding in back
lot It cost him SIS to pay for the calf.
Immunity made the goose bodcr. 1t at
tackled the poultry yards, and in week
slaughtered more than score Of young
chickens Its beak was against all species Of
man and beast 1t had no respect even FOR
its own kind, and killed a half dozen gos.
ings.
a small public school with a young woman
in charge is taught about quarter of mile
beyond Mrs. Waller's house. 1t is attended
chiefly by small children The other morn.
ing the goose few in at an open window OF
the school building. 1t perched on the back
Of desk and took philosophical survey OF
the room and its inmates. All recognized
the terror Of the neighborhood. The teacher
seized ruler and threw it at the goose. The
goose few at her and gaYe her a long scratch
across the forehead The children IN alright
ran out Of the room and the teacher followed,
leaving the goose monarch Of all it surveyed
The alarm was given, and seIaeGen returned
to capture ..te- ..te intruder The goose was gone,
but what scene of desolation! The floor
was covered with books. Most Of them had
their leaves torn out. Nearly all the win
| dows were broken. While they were looking
at the ruin the goose few by the window
| with souawk- Two hours later it pecked
to death little pet pug dog which had IN
cautiously wandered out Of the house.
This completes its outrages to date, but
others are expected.-Louisville Cor. Chicago
Tribune.