Perhaps the village lights embarrassed them, or perhaps the constant changes in the face of the country, from the clearings then going on, introduced into the landscape features not according with the ideal map handed down in the anserine family, and thus deranged its traditional geography.
"The Earth as Modified by Human Action"
George P. Marsh
Nay, full in his very path he spies The gleam of the Were Wolf's horrid eyes; But if his members quiver- It is not for that-no, it is not for that- Nor rat, Nor cat, As black as your hat, Nor the snake that hiss'd, nor the toad that spat, Nor glimmering candles of dead men's fat, Nor even the flap of the Vampire Bat, No anserine skin would rise thereat, It's the cold that makes Him shiver!
"The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood"
Thomas Hood
With that Katie's goose-or perhaps one should say her anserine-was cooked.
"A Crooked Mile"
Oliver Onions