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Carlisle Patriot - December 27th, 1844

THE GRAVE OF THE  GOOSE
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    A  respected tradesman of this town, who is a judge of the good things of
this life  having had the advantage of discussing the merits of the Lord
Mayor's feast with  his friend Sir Peter LAURIE, purchased last week a fine fat
goose for his  Christmas dinner, and in order that, by the merry 25th, it might
be rich and  tender, he carefully buried in his garden.
 
    In the  rite of interment, however, our friend had been perceived; and on
proceeding to  perform the office of exhumation, he found that decomposition
had taken place to  a much greater extent than he had anticipated. Nothing was
left but the  skeleton. All the bones were there, and the superstratum of
earth as he had laid  it; but the resurrection of the flesh was complete, and
some hungry bellies had  rejoiced.
 
~ Kelso  Mail.
 
 
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