My employer gave me a goose weighing eighteen pounds as a Christmas present. The clerk said, " The old gentleman had never been known to give anything away before in his life. He has taken a fancy to you, and you are the lucky one." It being Christmas time, I thought I would treat myself to a good dinner and went into a restaurant and laid the goose on the counter. For the first time it struck me that I didn't want the bird and that it was of no use to me at all. I knew no one in London to give it to, so when the owner of the restaurant came round again I asked him if he would care to buy it. I told him he could have it cheap. He turned to a couple of men who were sitting in a corner. They didn't look to me worth the price of a chicken between them. A solemn-looking individual who had been snoring in a corner suddenly woke up as I was going out, and offered me seven pence for it. He would have taken it away, I should never have seen it again, and my whole life might have been different. But Fate has always been against me. I replied that it was not a Christmas dinner fund for the destitute, and walked out. The idea occurred to me to sell it to a poultry shop. I found one in Middleton street. There wasn't a customer near it. I took the goose out of the parcel and laid it on the shelf before the owner and told him that he could have it cheap. He just seized the goose by the neck and flung it at me. I dodged, and it caught the side of my head. I picked it up and hit him back with it, and a policeman came up. 'Look at the shop,' the shopkeeper said. 'It's twenty minutes to twelve, and there are seven dozen of geese hanging there that I'm willing to give away, and this fool asks me if I want to buy another.' I followed the policeman's advice, and went away quietly, taking the bird with me. Then said I to myself, that I will give it to a poor deserving person. I passed a good many people, but no one looked deserving enough. I stopped a half starved child and pressed it upon her. She answered 'Not me!' I was desperate. At the Canal Bridge I looked behind me, and could see no one. I dropped the goose on the bridge. Heaving a sigh if relief as I turned back, a constable collared me.
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