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a different matter. Our farmer friend fixed her securely in a cardboard box, and cut windows in the side so that she could see out. He closed the top by interweaving the four cardboard flaps. That was his secure way of handling a goose in transit.

It didn’t work.

As we waited at the traffic light to turn off on the country road in downtown Culpeper, the lid suddenly burst open and the goose pushed her neck up. It was like a volcano erupting. The bird must have barged upwards with her strong shoulders.

The trouble started when a motorbike pulled up behind us, and impatient for the light to change green, the driver revved his engine. He was more shocked than the goose. He shot off dow n the center of Main Street at top speed.

There was nothing I could do but press on to the open country, ignoring as best I could the

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