The Diary of a Goose Girl

The Diary of a Goose Girl, by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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Title: The Diary of a Goose Girl
Author: Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Release Date: May 15, 2007 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1902 Gay and Bird edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
THE DIARY OF A GOOSE GIRL
BY
KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
CLAUDE A. SHEPPERSON GAY AND BIRD 22 BEDFORD STREET, STRAND LONDON 1902
TO THE HENS, DUCKS, AND GEESE WHO SO KINDLY GAVE ME SITTINGS FOR THESE SKETCHES THE BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED
CHAPTER I.
THORNYCROFT FARM, near Barbury Green, July 1, 190-.
In alluding to myself as a Goose Girl, I am using only the most modest of my titles; for I am also a poultry-maid, a tender of Belgian hares and rabbits, and a shepherdess; but I particularly fancy the rôle of Goose Girl, because it recalls the German fairy tales of my early youth, when I always yearned, but never hoped, to be precisely what I now am. As I was jolting along these charming Sussex ...