The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1907-07-12
LENS FAIR NAME sMIRcHED.
She Helped the Goose Hatch Five
Chicks From Four Eaas.

CnlCkS TECU TUT EGGS
The proudest goose on Long Island
belongs to Alexander B. Soyars, Of
Riverhead. She has put the parable
of the talents to the blush. She has
nut most get-rich-Quick games to
shame. She is running close second to
the goose of golden egg fame, She is
the best business proposition on Long
Island.
For out OF one egg this goose
Matched two goslings.
Geese are not commonly supposed
to perform prodigious feats. In fact
there notorious lack of initiative,
common sense and executive ability
has led to the application Of their
generic name to certain humans from
time immemorial But this goose of
Soyars' is different from her tribe.
By way Of fooling her master she
first laid just four EGGS That's very
small showing for a healthy goose.
and Soyars was downright mad. So
he put the Queen Goose in a little
nest box all by herself, boarding up
the exit, threw in some feed and said:
There set now, darn your feathers,'
and went away.
But the Queen Goose refused to set.
So to speak, she had something under
her wing, and upon the morning Of
the third day, when Soyars went back
she modestly arose from the nest and
departed.
By this time SOyars was mad clean
through To shame the recreant
goose he got a hen and put it on the
goose eggs. The hen was surprised,
but obedient, and sat three weeks for
all she was worth, while the Queen
Goose languished in disgrace. At +ne
end of the third week, when the eggs
failed to produce, the hen quit in
disgust. She didn't know that it takes
an extra week to hatch gosling.
Next day the Queen Goose sau1Nar-
ed back to the nest Soyars found
her calmly setting and was so enrag-
ed that he feared he'd wiring her neck
if he pulled her off the eggs.
He decided he would stay away
from her altogether, and thus the
goose got her chance to make the
miracle.
Soyars and his family sat on their
front stoop Sunday night drinking in
the nectar of the belated spring. He
was telling his wife that if all the
geese were such geese as the Queen
Goose they'd have to sell the hatch
cry and open roadhouse or a cigar
stand.
Then a parlous quacking reached
their ears, and around the corner of
the house, head high and searching
her soul for more exultant means Of
triumph, waddled the Queen Goose
with five little goslings padding in
the rear.
"Quack, quack, quackety, quack,
quack," she boosted stridently as she
passed by the thunderstruck family
and paraded round the corner with
her progeny chasing ludicrously be-
hind.
A second time the Queen mother
passed the porch in her triumphal
march. While they were out of sight
she had taught her quintet to help in
the cheering, and this time they
helped her out with a chorus of
''yap-yap-yaps" that made the discon-
certed Soyars wonder if they weren't
taking English and hurting opprobrium
at him.
Soyars rushed from the piazza to
the goose house. He thrust his hand
into the nest of the Queen Goose and
pulled out just four broken shells.
And as he turned in amazement
the Queen Goose strutted up with a
quacking laugh and the Miracle Cos
ling began ironically caressing it's
bill with it's claw.-New York Ameri-
can.