A CHRISTMAS GOOSE
_ Those who have used up air their, ingenuity in trying year after year to think of some new device for amusing visitors aud raising., the\ funds-may bo. glad ..to'hear of a variation of the übiquitous brau pie or Father. Christmas, says a Sydney paper.' It is the Christmas g6osc, which has tha same use as the two, old .friends just mentioned,'.'.'and-.' is-.jUst * as .easily made. -For any : one who cares to try the new " dip," for that is practically .what it is,-the following directions may bo hofpfuh-p . jFirst build a littlo cubby-house of wiro netting, covered with foliage, and leaving a small opening for. a window. Close to tho right of the window, tho goose should be wired, and the ■child.who wishes to dip puts its coin into tho gooses mouth. The goose readies out its bill, places the coin, through tho window, taking from within a parcol, which it hands to tho buyer. Tho goose's breast should be inado of -cardboard, and ite neck is formed from a stocking, the whole being covered with cotton wool. Tho foot' of the stocking should be split up, and a bill of thin cardboard covered with yellow paper attached. Eyes can bo nindo of two boot buttons. Tho.operator sits inside tho cubby-house, with her arm ; through the stocking, or neck of the goose, so that she can take the coins and pass out the packages. There should bo a sholf fixed to tho wire, on which sho can rest her,arm, and she should also have a peep-hole. At the bazaar where the Christmns goose appeared it was a huge success, children and grown-ups coming again ami again for tho fuu of Boeing iU bill open to take: the coin..
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 687, 11 December 1909, Page 10
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290A CHRISTMAS GOOSE Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 687, 11 December 1909, Page 10
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