The Barnacle Goose is only a winter visitor of Great Britain. It breeds in the far north, in Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, and Nova Zembla, and probably, also, along the shores of the White Sea. There are generally some specimens of this prettily-marked goose in the gardens of the Zoological Society in the Regent's Park, London; and they thrive there, and become very tame. In the months of December and January these geese may often be seen hanging for sale in poulterers' shops; and he who has tasted one well cooked may be pardoned if the suspicion cross his mind that the "monks of old," and "the bare-footed friars," as well as the laity, may not have been unwilling to sustain the fiction in order that they might conserve the privilege of having on their tables during the long fast of Lent so agreeable and succulent a "vegetable" or "fish" as a Barnacle Goose. THE END. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. Transcriber's note: _Underscores_ have been used to indicate _italic_ fonts. Inconsistent hyphenation has been left as written. Missing end quote marks have been inserted. The word irreconcileable has been left as written: "I need scarcely point out how utterly irreconcileable is the" The word gowden has been left as written: "Braiding her locks of gowden hair" The word fane has been left as written: "exactly resembled the tail of a fish, with a broad fane" The word engulphed has been left as written: "were all suddenly engulphed in the waves on the night of the battle"