A young goose which had escaped the Christmas dinner made a dash for liberty on New Year’s Eve. The pros poet of New ''ear’:-; Day dinner may have held justifiable terror for it. so it embarked on the A Aon near the Bar ha does Street cemetery. Its owner came in pursuit with a long and heavy rope, with which he tried to lassoo the bird. Not having the skill of Tom Mix, he. failed. The goo.se. joined some ducks. Finally, a youth on the opposite side of the river, after transferring a fair portion of loose road metal into the stream, hit the bird with a stone, disabling a wing The goose made for the. bank and hid itself until a passerby secured it for its owner, who march- , ed home with it.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18044, 3 January 1927, Page 1
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