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Title: The Fox and the Geese; and The Wonderful History of Henny-Penny

Author: Anonymous

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THE FOX AND THE GEESE; AND THE WONDERFUL HISTORY OF HENNY-PENNY.

[Illustration]

With Illustrations by Harrison Weir.

Portland:
Published by Francis Blake,
No. 58 Exchange Street.

THE FOX AND THE GEESE.

There was once a Goose at the point of death,
So she called her three daughters near,
And desired them all, with her latest breath,
Her last dying words to hear.

"There's a Mr. Fox," said she, "that I know,
Who lives in a covert hard by;
To our race he has proved a deadly foe,
So beware of his treachery.

"Build houses, ere long, of stone or of bricks,
And get tiles for your roofs, I pray;
For I know, of old, Mr. Reynard's tricks,
And I fear he may come any day."

Thus saying, she died, and her daughters fair,--
Gobble, Goosey, and Ganderee,--
Agreed together, that they would beware
Of Mr. Fox, their enemy.

But Gobble, the youngest, I grieve to say,
Soon came to a very b