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Tales Of Mother Goose}: RED RIDING HOOD, Little, a popular nursery tale common to several oral traditions in Europe which appeared as Le petit chaperon rouge in Charles Perrault's Histoircs ou conies du temps passe avec des moralites (c.1697), which also bore the title Cantes de ma mere I'oye (Tales of Mother Goose}. It is the story of a girl in a red cloak who meets a wolf while on her way to her grandmother's house. Forgetting her mother's warning to speak to no one on the way, she tells the wolf her destination. The wolf then hurries on ahead, devours her grandmother, and, on Red Riding Hood's arrival, eats her also. In the German version of the story published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in their Kinder- mid Hausmdrchen (Grimm's Fairy Tales), a hunter arrives in time to rip open the wolf and restore both Red Riding Hood and her grandmother to life.
The derogatory term "goose" is incorrect as the goose is an exceedingly intelligent bird. A pet goose becomes quite devoted to its master or mistress, obeys calls and commands, and in many ways proves itself an individual of no small character.
Geese have been domesticated for many centuries, probably long before ducks were.
Oviparous; 20-70 hard-shelled eggs about size of goose eggs deposited in center of nest made of mud and masses of vegetable debris piled to height of 3 feet; warmth produced by decaying vegetation incubates eggs; mother guards nest until young hatch in 9-10 weeks; when ready to emerge, young make loud peeping sound; mother tears nest open and liberates them; young may remain with mother until following spring.
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