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Cap’n Warren’s Wards

CHAPTER VI
19/57

'Son,' says I, 'your eyesight is bad.

That's a British-American goose.

Chop off about three feet of neck and a couple of fathom of hind legs and pick and clean what's left, and I shouldn't wonder if 'twould make a good dinner for a mutual friend of ours--good _enough_, anyhow.' Well, sir! that ex-consul set plump down in the mud and laughed and laughed.

Ho, ho! Oh, dear me!" "Did you send it to the Englishman ?" asked Sylvester.
"Oh, yes, I sent it.

And, after a good while and in a roundabout way, I heard that the whole dinner party vowed 'twas the best wild goose they ever ate.


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