Punch,  50 (1866), 227.

The Goose's Peculiar Complaint

Anon

Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Zoology, Disease, Animal Behaviour


    Discusses a report of a 'new species of disease' that has broken out among geese and which some attribute 'to the easterly winds'. Believes it is a 'disease of repletion' since 'Geese are apt to stuff themselves'.



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