The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-01-16

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illustrating spring magazine covers
One kind has brown shaped plunage
| with dark beak and shanks, the other
| Is pure white with orange shanks
| and beak. The principal character
| istic OF this breed is the large knob
at the base OF the beak.
EMDEN IS GERMAN.
The Emden Is a German breed. II
Is large. pure white, with flesh
colored beak and orange shanks.
The Egyptian goose seems TO have
been sighted by the New York race
promoter. though II is common IN this
country. This breed is gray and
black above and yellow below. with
chestnut breast. black-striped wings
and a black tail.
| Then there is the blue winged
goose. a North American breed.
grayish brown with blue-gray wings.
This goose Is not in Tuesdays race.
Neither is the Cape Barren goose.
which Is grayish with black spots.
This used to run wild in Australia.
but Is now pretty well killed or
domesticated.
The Gambia goose. the common
African spur-winged goose, has no
representative in the New York con-
test, nor has the Hutchins' goose,
which resembles small Canada
goose and is found in subarctlc
regions. nor the upland goose, which
lives in Patagonia.
However, there appears to be a
decent representation OF this ancient
family entered for Tuesdays contest.
GOOSE FOILED BRENNUs.
Now don't imagine that a goose
is foolish and useless. Remember,
1t was goose whose cackling
awakened the Roman soldiers when
Brennus. the fiery Gaul. was storm
ing the city. The Romans got up,
grabbed their spears and short
swords and proceeded to carve their
names on the hairy chests of the at
lacking Gauls. and all because a
goose happened to be on the job.
That goose didn't like the Gauls.
1t probably knew that the Gauls
were hungry as the dickens after
, their long march and that goose
meat would go very well with them,
II they could overthrow the city.
After the Romans finished wallop-
ing the eternal daylights out OF
their foes, they came back and cele-
brated their victory and, according
to the ancient tale, ever after held
in high veneration the noble goose
whose cackIing had saved them.
Indeed much has been written
about geese TO prove their saCacity.
their intelligent alertness and their
| faithfulness. Old Mother Goose is
not the only one to bring down
through the ages the tale OF this
great fowl.
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