He had an ax and was opening a big crate, containing two of the largest, bluest geese you ever saw.

Laddie said being boxed that way and seeing them so close made them look so big; really, they were no finer than Pryors', where he had got the address of the place that sold them.
Mother was so pleased.

She said she had needed a new strain, for a long time, to improve her feathers; now she would have pillows worth while, in a few years.

They put them in the barn where our geese stayed over night, and how they did scream.

That is, one of them did; the other acted queerly and father said to Laddie that he was afraid the trip was hard on it.