_WHAT GEESE CAN DO._
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1. To show that the goose has a great deal of good sense, this story
is told:
2. At a small country church a poor blind woman used to come in every
Sunday morning, as regular as the clock, a minute or two behind the
pastor.
3. She was always alone, came in the last and went away the first of
any. The pastor, who was a new-comer, was puzzled to know how she got
about so well.
4. One day he set out to visit her, and found that she lived in a
small cottage, more than a mile away.
5. On his way to her home, he crossed a stream on a narrow rustic
bridge, with a railing on only one side.
6. He rapped at the door, and asked of the woman who opened it, "Does
the blind woman who comes to church every Sunday live here?" "Yes,
that she does! but she's out in the field now."
7. "Why do you let the poor creature come all the way by herself, and
across the bridge, too? She will fall into the water some day and be
drowned!"
8. The woman laughed softly. "Sure, she doesn't go alone--the goose
takes her!" said she.