the maid if she would have him! He put down the sack and opened it.

'I say, maid,' quoth he, 'shall us get married, us two?'

'G-r-r-r-r-r-r!' says the maid.

Johnny, in a fright, let go his hold of the cord, the sack fell open, out jumped Rumble, and flew at his throat.

Johnny sprang into a willow-tree and climbed up it, but, lo and behold! the tree was rotten, and down came tree and Johnny and all on the back of Rumble! Now, Rumble was expecting nothing of that sort, and, with one wild yowl, he flew away like the wind, and never stopped till the town gates of Condé were closed behind him!

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HEN once the voice of Rumble was lost in the distance, Johnny climbed out of the tree and found that none of his bones were broken.

All of a sudden in the hollow of the tree trunk he saw something shining like a will o' the wisp.

He put in his hands and pulled out A Goose with Golden Feathers!

'Here's luck at last,' says Johnny, 'I've lost a maid and found a golden goose! I'll have it roasted this very night,' and off he went to the best inn in the village.

Now the inn was full of people going to the fair on St. Calixtus's day, which was a great festival.

However, Johnny, being but a village idiot, had never heard anything about all that.

Up he comes and goes to the landlord, who didn't know where to turn, he had so many customers, all going to the fair.

'Cook my goose!' says Johnny, as bold as brass.

'Oh, you go to—Jerusalem,' says the landlord, 'we don't cook gold geese here, not to-day, we don't.'

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'Well, if you won't be obliging and cook my goose,' says Johnny Nut, 'why, I'll give it to Saint Calixtus. A pretty poor saint he'll be if he does not give me a goose fit to put on the spit in exchange for my goose of gold!'

So he got supper somehow, and went with his goose to sleep in the stable.

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HE landlord of the inn had three fair daughters, all as curious as their mother Eve. All night long they turned and