If the others wished to sit still and let the fox carry them away one at a time, that was one thing, but for her to do nothing to keep her little goslings safe,--that was quite another.
They did not like to be in the water at all, but the goslings loved their morning bath in the brook better than anything else in the whole day.
Mamma Goose, too, was just as glad as the rest, for now she knew that she would never need to bother herself to think about the goslings again.
The goslings could hunt for their breakfasts almost as well as their mother, while little Red Hen had to scratch up every thing her children ate.
So that very evening, when the sun had gone down behind the hill, and the chickens had perched themselves on the roost with the big cock at the end, Mamma Goose led all the little goslings into Fido's house.
If the fox would not go near old Fido's house, then he could not find the goslings if they hid inside.
Besides, the goslingshad been in the water long enough.
As soon as he beheld the broom he retired, although with much offended pride and dignity, to the lilac bushes; and the geese and goslings followed him.
I brought them up myself, and one of those goslings is that gander.
We are going on," called the Gander; "we would wait, but the Goslings are in a hurry to take their first bath.
They did so want to stay and see the Peacock, and they thought the Ducklings and Goslings were much luckier than they.
Down by the brook the rest of the flock were cackling merrily, and she could see the seven Goslings swimming with the Geese and the Gander.
Then the geese made their nests in the trees, where the rats could not get at them; and when the goslings were hatched, they brought them down one by one under their wings.
The goslings are covered with a thick coat of down, and are able to run on the land or swim in the water when they first come out of the shell.
The young goslings get wonted to each other, and first thing you know they're tied up until death or divorce doth them part.
I quickly discovered that, while endeavouring to turn one misfortune into jest, I recalled another to her remembrance, for it seems that, by a series of domestic calamities, all her goslings had perished.
The Story of Baby's Pillow These are the Eggs that were put in a nest; These are the Goslings in yellow down drest.
This is the Farmyard where, living in peace, All the young Goslings grew up to be Geese.
She leaned out over the well and blew on the nearest ones--Yes, it helped--the goslings began to swim again.
They look like goslings too, for each little tassel has soft, soft yellow down, and they can swim in the water, but walk?
She thought Little Beate called up to her to throw the goslings down first, but she didn't dare to do that; she was afraid they might fall and hurt themselves.
Now Big Beate climbed up into the willow and picked many pretty yellow goslings into her white apron, and when she counted them and had counted to twenty, twice, she said that now they had enough, and Little Beate thought so too.
But after awhile the little goslings would not swim any longer but lay quite still.
The goslings take to the water early; but they like to go ashore to feed on the green grass and herbage of the uplands, and there they often run into trouble.
Silly ignorant Goslings in the middle saying to Brahmins, 'And you are Muscleman, aren't you, or are you a Dhobi?
While nature with its willows and its goslings had no objection to my "cutting" the synagogue service, its Gentile and ungenteel children objected seriously, and I was driven back to the dusty street, with its cobblestone pavement.
The next spring I no more made whistles, or scourges at Easter time; neither did I follow the goslings to the pasture or sit beside the goose girl under the beech tree by the chapel.
I still preferred the willows and the whistles, the goslings and the goose girl to my uncle, my grandmother, my cousins, and the Talmud.
The boys teased me for going to the meadow with the girl, but as I recall it now it was the fluffy little goslings that drew me after her, although it may have been the girl, for I early developed a liking for the opposite sex.
Both of them ran over to the well, and Big Beate helped her little friend to get her legs firmly fixed between the logs that were around the well, so that she might sit in comfort and watch the little goslings swim about on the water.
Now, Big Beate climbed up into the willow and picked many pretty yellow goslings into her little white apron, and when she counted them she said that now they had enough, and Little Beate thought so too.
Now, Big Beate and Little Beate soon agreed that they would pick goslings from the tree and throw them into the well, so that these might have just as good a time as the big geese and goslings that were swimming about in the pond.
But after awhile the little goslings would not swim any longer, but lay quite still.
The young goslings are easily killed by excessive moisture or may become lost and therefore they require considerable attention during the early stages.
A good food for the goslings is stale bread soaked in milk or water, fed after they are 48 hours old.
Whole grain may be fed after the goslings are well feathered.
So some time after this, wayfaring men found the goslings strewn about dead, and the home-geese broken-winged; and this was in autumn.
On the summit stood Akka, with Yksi and Kaksi, Kolmi and Neljä, Viisi and Knusi, and all six goslings and waited for them.
When thegoslings had seen the plain, the leader-goose flew down the Öresund coast.
The eaglet's wings soon grew so large that they could carry him; but not until autumn, when the goslings learned to fly, did it dawn upon him that he could use them for flight.
He heard the wild geese call out to the goslings that now they were in Dalarne, they could see Städjan in the north, and that now they were flying over Österdal River to Horrmund Lake and were coming to Vesterdal River.
So he took Dunfin and thegoslings along, and made for home.
Instead, the old geese were taking with them twenty-two goslingsthat had grown up in the glen that summer.
The six goslings which had accompanied the flock the autumn before had now left to look after themselves.
And she was quite right, for when the goslings had flown two hours longer, they complained no more of being tired.
Those goslings of yours aren't ready to fly," screamed the others.
Forthwith the goosey-gander, Dunfin, and all six goslings waddled into the goose pen, to have a look at the elegance and comfort in which the big white gander had lived before he joined the wild geese.
The goslings were now so used to flying that they complained no more of fatigue, and the boy was fast recovering his good humour.
Many times during the trip the goslingshad asked the old geese: "How does it look in foreign lands?
Then the old goose and the gander and all the little goslings started slowly along the road for home, saying cross words in Goose talk all the way!
Thin sheets of it, like pieces of broken glass, were soon floating about; and the old goose, the gander, and all the goslings went down the bank in a procession into the water.
But best of all the little fowls Still playing on the shore, Soft downy chicks and goslings gay, Chirped out, "Dear Goose, lay more.
Good little goslings at their play And well-conducted chicks Were taught to think poor goosey's flights Were naughty, ill-bred tricks.
The weak ones get in with the strong and are in danger of being trampled; two May goslings that look almost full-grown have run into a house with a brood of ducklings a week old.
For he must have dowsed 'imself as well as the goslings yesterday; anyways he was strong of paraffin and tobacco, though he 'ad 'ad a good barth.
Several goslings leaned languidly against the netting, or supported themselves by the edge of the water-dish, while others staggered and reeled about with eyes half closed.
All but one of the goslings lived, like thousands of others who recover in spite of the doctors, but the Square Baby's interest in the healing art is now perceptibly lessened.
The nutriment of goslings rather transcending Tommy's observations in natural history, he feigned to understand this question in an exclamatory rather than an interrogatory sense, and became absorbed in winding up his top.
They ought not to be out in the rain at any time during the first month; and both geese and goslings should be shut up in the boxes at night, during the same period, as a protection against rats and vermin.
When goslings are first allowed to go at large with their mother, every plant of hemlock which grows within their range should be pulled up, as they are very apt to eat it, and it generally proves fatal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goslings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
