The Snow Goose

Collect all pages-cleaned and sized to make a miniature
book for your dolls.

Assemble a mini doll sized book: Left, is the Snow Goose's illustration and verse. Visitors can collect all the bird illustrations and verse from "Bird Children" to print and construct a small book of verse for their dolls. Simply drag each png. into a Word Document, print, cut out all of the images the same size and staple the pages together at the left edge. Squeeze out some white school glue along the stapled edge of the pages and attach a cardboard cover.

 "Honk-Honk, Honk-honk," old
Snow Goose said,
"I think tonight we'll go to bed
A hundred miles due south from here,-
The snow is on the way, I fear'' 

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"His goose is cooked." is an idiom that means a person, man or woman, has been damaged by an enemy or gossip. If the phrase refers to a woman, "Her goose is cooked." 

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Miss Goosey Is Charmed by Reynard the Fox

       Once Reynard, the Fox, charmed Miss Goosey and coaxed her to go with him to his own city in the woods. She consented. But scarcely had they left the poultry-yard before Goosey began to feel nervous. Reynard had such a wicked twinkle in his eye, and licked his lips so often, that she began to wish herself safe back again, and said so.  
       But Reynard said, "No, no, dear friend, there is nothing I love so much as a pretty young swan; I cannot spare you."
       "But I'm a goose, I'm a goose!" cackled the poor bird.
       "You are indeed," replied Beau Reynard, "or you wouldn't have ventured out with me."
       Now, there is no knowing what might have happened to Goosey had not the Fox begun to laugh at his own joke, and she took the opportunity to waddle off.
       She reached the pen just as the Fox had begun to wipe his eye, and prepare for his meal. "Let me in, let me in I" she cried to her mamma. "I'm your own little Goosey come back again, and I'll never, never, never leave home again." So it all ended happily - at least, for the Goose. Henry Altemus Company.

Additional Content About Geese:

• Ducks and Geese On The Farm
• Some Possible Reasons for Bird Migration
• Color white Percon geese...
• Add a few porcelain geese to your Easter eggs!
• The story of "The Golden Goose"
• Nursery rhyme geese put on a Christmas play

       Below is a template for those young students who would like to download, print, and cut-out a pattern for a "flock" of geese to fly south across their classroom walls or windows.  

A Canadian goose to craft a flock of geese with; just multiply!