item: #1 of 7 id: 10935 author: Lagerlöf, Selma title: The Wonderful Adventures of Nils date: None words: 157055 flesch: 90 summary: He was separated from everything now; he could no longer play with other boys, he could not take charge of the farm after his parents were gone; and certainly no girl would think of marrying _him_. But it hadn't occurred to him before, that he was no longer the sort of boy the hens need fear. keywords: air; akka; bear; big; birds; black; boy; children; city; country; day; dog; eagle; elk; eyes; farm; father; find; fly; forest; fox; gander; geese; good; goosey; gray; great; ground; head; help; home; house; human; ice; island; jarro; karr; know; lake; land; lay; left; let; little; look; morning; mother; mountain; night; open; people; place; rats; sea; smirre; thing; thought; thumbietot; time; trees; water; way; white; wild; wind; wings; work cache: 10935.txt plain text: 10935.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 11936 author: Herr, Charlotte B. (Charlotte Bronte) title: The Wise Mamma Goose date: None words: 1857 flesch: 92 summary: THE WISE MAMMA GOOSE Mamma Goose was trying to think. Thinking had always been hard work for Mamma Goose. keywords: goose cache: 11936.txt plain text: 11936.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 1867 author: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith title: The Diary of a Goose Girl date: None words: 19238 flesch: 75 summary: {The Six Bells found the last poultry somewhat tough: p103.jpg} So, donning a pair of Phoebe's large white cotton gloves with open-work wrists (than which I always fancy there is no one article that so disguises the perfect lydy), I set out upon my travels, upborne by a lively sense of amusement that was at least equal to my feeling that I was doing Phoebe Heaven a good turn. Old hens were held firmly at sixpence, and it is my experience that they always have to be, at whatever price. keywords: baby; bailiff; cut; day; ducks; eggs; farm; good; goose; green; heaven; hen; hens; house; life; man; miss; mother; mrs; phoebe; place; poultry; square; time; true; white; young cache: 1867.txt plain text: 1867.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 22611 author: Anonymous title: The Fox and the Geese; and The Wonderful History of Henny-Penny date: None words: 2179 flesch: 94 summary: Thus saying, she died, and her daughters fair,-- Gobble, Goosey, and Ganderee,-- Agreed together, that they would beware Of Mr. Fox, their enemy. And they said,-- Oh, Mr. Fox, the clouds are falling, and we are going to tell the king. keywords: cocky; daddles; fox; penny cache: 22611.txt plain text: 22611.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 33029 author: Slocum, Rob R. (Rob Roy) title: Ducks and Geese date: None words: 59161 flesch: 78 summary: The cost of maintaining them will not be great and they will not only provide a most acceptable variety in the form of duck meat and duck eggs for the farmers' table but they will also produce a surplus which can be sold at a profit. A few ventures of this sort seem to have been successful but it must be remembered that the market for duck eggs is not nearly so broad as that for hens' eggs and that in some quarters there exists considerable prejudice against duck eggs for table consumption. keywords: birds; breeders; breeding; breeding ducks; breeds; brooder; color; drake; duck eggs; ducklings; ducks; eggs; farms; fattening; feathers; feed; feeding; geese; good; goose; goose eggs; goslings; hatching; house; industry; market; size; time; water; white; yards cache: 33029.txt plain text: 33029.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 62685 author: Howard, George E. (George Ellsworth) title: Ducks and Geese: Standard Breeds and Management date: None words: 17947 flesch: 80 summary: 14 and 15 are shown two more designs of duck houses, which are practical and cheap, and may be built singly or in rows for a number of pens. Other ducks are judged for practical qualities by the Pekin. keywords: birds; black; brown; color; dark; ducks; feathers; fig; geese; gray; house; plumage; pounds; water; white; young cache: 62685.txt plain text: 62685.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 7897 author: Prentice, Amy title: The Gray Goose's Story date: None words: 12146 flesch: 86 summary: All of us who lived there knew what it meant, and ran for dear life, with Mrs. Wild Goose at our heels, as she shrieked: 'What is she going to do?' 'She's going to pull out our feathers with which to stuff pillows and beds for Mr. Man to sleep on,' Mr. Gander said. This time Mr. Gander thought he might venture to speak, and he said, talking way down in his throat as he had heard Mr. Man: 'The nearest pond is our private property, and we do not care to have strangers there until we know if they are birds of quality. keywords: amy; aunt; gander; goose; illustration; man; mrs; time cache: 7897.txt plain text: 7897.txt