Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Several years ago, a farmer in Scotland kept a gander, which not only had a great trick of wandering himself, but also delighted to lead forth the geese to play truant and stray among forbidden fields. Wishing to check this vagrant habit, the farmer one day seized the gander, just as he was about to spring into the water, and tying a large fish hook to his leg, to which was affixed a part of a dead frog, he suffered him to proceed on his voyage of discovery. As was expected, the bait was soon swallowed by a fish, and the progress of the gander was not only arrested, but he was forced to perform divers somersaults. For some time the struggle was most amusing, the fish pulling and the gander screaming with all his might, while the geese and goslings cackled out their sympathy for the afflicted captain. At length the gander proved victorious, and bearing away to the nearest shore, landed on the smooth green grass, one of the finest fish ever caught in the waters. This adventure is said to have cured the gander of his vagrant propensities, and he afterwards rarely ventured from his own puddle.