The connection of Mother Goose with the rhymes which bear her name is difficult to determine, and, in fact, three countries claim her for their own: France, England and America.
On the title page was the picture of a goose with a very long neck and a mouth wide open, and below this, "Printed by T.
The songs that cluster around her name are what we love, and each individual verse appeals more to the childish mind than does Mother Goose herself.
Her eldest daughter, Elizabeth Goose (or Vertigoose), was married by Rev.
Prepared by Bebra Knutson Mother Goosein Prose by L.
When Thomas was six years old, he watched a goose sitting on her eggs and saw them hatch.
He wanted to understand this strange thing better, so he gathered all the goose and hen's eggs he could and made a big nest in his father's barn.
I asked Guy once why he did not marry her instead of a little goose like me, and he said he liked the little goose the best, and then kissed me, and crumpled my white dress all up.
The pearls were safe, and we've been on a jolly wild-goose chase.
You don't mean to say we've been on a wild-goose chase all this time?
After colouring, the artist proceeds to bring out the lighter effects by taking off the colour in the proper place, with a goose quill cut like a pen without a slit.
The feathers of the eider duck, anas mollissima, called eider down, possess in a superior degree all the good qualities of goose down.
Goose feathers are most esteemed for beds, and they are best when plucked from the living bird, which is done thrice a year, in spring, midsummer, and the beginning of harvest.
Home to dinner, where the best powderedgoose that ever I eat.
At the Wild Goose near Wiltshire and Chambers Streets.
In the dark mews behind the "Wild Goose Tavern" had gathered a shadowy company of horsemen, unfortunate patriots who had not been quick enough to leave the city before the troops shut its landward gates.
This was prior to the middle of the eighteenth century, when Clinton, the surveyor, marked the Chesekook claim line, which extended from the base of Goose Pond Mountain to Bellevale and thence to the Jersey line.
About 100 years ago Isaac Kinner and Daniel Cooley lived on the western foothills of the Goose Pond Mountains.
Still New England is New England, and Boston is Boston, if she does now and then make a tremendous old goose of herself, and sometimes threatens to cackle the hub all to pieces.
I, feeling the goose pimples a-creeping up my arms.
To please that man I would have done almost anything; but it did seem a wild-goose chase for a lot of grown people to rush down to Pleasure Bay for the fun of pulling up a lot of the strangest vegetables that ever grew.
Eve ever had a paradise like that, she was just the greatest goose that ever lived to be turned out of it for the sake of one little knotty apple.
It was the grains of corn that made the eggs, and the goose did nothing but sit and lay them.
With every temptation to wipe off some of the arrears of injustice of the past, we must not go so far as to kill the goosethat lays the golden egg.
Now came the drums and fifes, and now the blare of the brass instruments, and continuously the singing of the soldiers of 'Die Wacht am goose step, while the good lieges of Brus-Rhein.
FOX AND MISS GOOSE It had been raining all day so that Uncle Remus found it impossible to go out.
As they were unharnessing the horses a flock of geese alighted on the edge of the lake near, and Jim, seizing his rifle and taking aim, brought down a goose at three hundred yards.
All had been done with such rapidity that within forty minutes of the moment when the goose had been killed the men were eating it with that hearty relish only healthy appetites can give.
One of the boys ran down and picked up the goose and brought it to his mother.
Let's baa at him, and tell him what an old goose he is," said the other.
Because I am not such a goose as to eat cold, dirty potatoes and cows' food when I can get my favorite nice, crisp lettuce.
When rupture is out how does it compare in size to pigeon's, hen's, or goose egg?
My rupture was as large as a goose egg, and was out all of the time.
A most elegantly moulded goose from the North Island.
They are as big as a big goose and have white plumage, black at the extremity of the wings and of the tail.
The gray goose has flapped me with her wings whenever she got the chance; and in getting them safely here, I nearly fell a dozen times, and broke the whole setting of eggs," he said excitedly.
The little fellow set the basket of eggs gently on the ground, laid the struggling goose on her side, and made the Wanderer fast to a fence-post, before he could answer her many questions.
But the goosemay do the same mischief," interrupted Master Sunshine anxiously.
This wild-goose chase is done; we have won o' both sides.
Upon the last two tables devoted to shell fish, or crustacea, are spread the goose shells or barnacles, whale lice, and I the sea acorn.
In the first of these cases the visitor should notice the varieties of the spur-winged goose from various parts of the world; including the black-backed goose.
Boston, as the eagle and the wild goose see it, is a very different object from the same place as the solid citizen looks up at its eaves and chimneys.
Those had been gallant days, laughable, it is true; but every one seemed to be able to pluck a feather from the golden goose of fortune.
To send the count on a wild-goose chase to Quebec while madame sauntered leisurely toward Spain!
Its southern French form Chrestiaa suggested to Michel a derivation from cresta (crete), thegoose foot of red cloth worn by the Cagots of the Pyrenees.
The "Goose Girl" illustration taken from his beautiful Household Stories from Grimm (1882) was reproduced in tapestry by William Morris, and is now in the South Kensington Museum.
