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People there make it their business to keep perhaps as many as a thousand geese, which, in the course of a year, will increase seven-fold, the geese being kept in the houses, and even bedrooms, of their owners whilst hatching, and a person called a gozzard having the charge of them.

—Mamma's Stories about Birds

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People there make it their business to keep perhaps as many as a thousand geese, which, in the course of a year, will increase seven-fold, the geese being kept in the houses, and even bedrooms, of their owners whilst hatching, and a person called a gozzard having the charge of them. — Mamma's Stories about Birds
This is more probable than a "jingling allusion to goose-herd or gozzard," which Dilke suggests 23=, 124. — Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
This is more probable than a "jingling allusion ... to goose-herd or gozzard," which Dilke suggests. — Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
How many of that vast flock of geese, which are now peacefully feeding over the long, cold wolds of Norfolk, or are driven gabbling and hissing by the gozzard to their pasture -- how many of those very geese were called into being simply for Christmas Day! — Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse