BOOTS FOR GEESE
You may have heard older members of your family mention during the past^eeks the town of Vilna, an interesting place. Vilna is probably the ,;qnly place in the world where people- jshofd their geese. The birds had''tKeW^et'.arppfd In tar and were then' driven over heaps of loose sand. This •treatment provided their with a pair bf boots or its equivalent, and enabled them to march all the way to the goose market at Warsaw without getting - footsore or developing corns.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 17
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83BOOTS FOR GEESE Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 109, 4 November 1939, Page 17
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