The Golden Goose by Dick King-Smith

Author:Dick King-Smith [King-Smith, Dick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-52890-2
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2005-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

So Joy became a full-time house-goose. To be sure, she saw her parents every day, for she always followed the farmer down to the orchard when he went to feed them (he'd sold the other four goslings—for a handsome price, what's more), and Misery and Sorrow were always noisily pleased to see this golden child of theirs.

But Farmer Skint was careful not to take Joy outside unless he was sure there was nobody about. As things were now, he no longer worried too much about foxes, but human thieves would be a different matter. If a dishonest person were to set eyes on his extraordinary bird, she might be stolen.

Really, the only person likely to see Joy was the postman. Nobody else much ever came to the Skints' isolated farmhouse. When the new flock of chickens began to lay, Mrs. Skint took the eggs she had for sale to the market in town. She didn't want people knocking on her door.

The postman didn't usually knock, he just shoved mail through the flap of the letter box in the front door—unless he had a parcel too big to go through the flap, in which case he'd press the bell.

One morning toward the end of June, when Farmer Skint was making hay (no rain about now, the weather was glorious and stayed so throughout haymaking and, later, harvest), the postman came to Woebegone Farm with a biggish parcel and pressed the bell. Mrs. Skint didn't hear the ring because she was vacuuming, but Jill did and went to the front door. She was not tall enough to open it, but just the right height for talking through the flap of the letter box.

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