Gaffer Goose['s] golden plaything  being a new collection of entertaining fables. Intended as a present for all those good girls and boys who behave according to the following rules: that is, do as they are bid, come when they are called, and shut the door after them.

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Gaffer Goose['s] golden plaything being a new collection of entertaining fables. Intended as a present for all those good girls and boys who behave according to the following rules: that is, do as they are bid, come when they are called, and shut the door after them.