...a Friday morn — She tripp'd unawares as ehe hurried down stairs, And thrice was her kirtle torn. And thrice by the way went the gander astray Ere she reach'd the foot of the nill ; And the raven's croak from a neighbouring oak Proclaim'd approaching ill. * ' We are told that...

...history, a goose was sold for 3d., and a cow for 7s. The superiority Uamo Alice s geese in their original state, to judge of them by their present size, must plead her excuso for estimating them at a penny above the market-price.' And now and 0 now had she climb' d the...