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Geese a laying Swans a swimming Hares a running: Ladies dancing Lords a playing: Bears a baiting: Bulls a roaring: Halliwell, 1842 [6] My mother sent to me Partridge in a pear-tree Turtle doves French hens Canary birds Gold rings Geese a laying Swans a swimming Ladies dancing: Lords a leaping: Ships a sailing: Ladies spinning: Bells ringing ...
6 Geese A-laying = the six days of creation. 7 Swans A-swimming = the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, the seven sacraments. 8 Maids A-milking = the eight beatitudes.
Door 1 had "6 geese a'laying" and was given to Jennifer. On her last pick, Door 4, Stephany ended up with "8 maids a'milking". Mid-round twist is to make a dozen petit fours presents to go with the main dessert.
Many other stories contain geese that lay golden eggs, though certain versions change them for hens or other birds that lay golden eggs. The tale has given rise to the idiom 'killing the goose that lays the golden eggs', which refers to the short-sighted destruction of a valuable resource, or to an unprofitable action motivated by greed.
Among all the gifts in "The Twelve Days of Christmas," "six geese a-laying" is the third-most affordable, totaling $273. If comparing the price per bird, geese were the second-most economical ...
The study started in the spring of 1950 with 2 male and 4 female pilgrim geese which were mated together in two breeding pens. [15] The geese were bred progressively for 5 years and by 1954, there were 16 breeding pens each with 1 gander and 5 females. [15] All the geese were trap-nested 7 days a week for the duration of the laying season.
In Victorian England, cooking a Christmas goose was a natural option for most people who couldn't afford to butcher a hen or cow for Christmas dinner: Geese only lay eggs in warmer months and ...
As a layer of eggs it is the most prolific of any breed of goose, usually laying some 50–60 eggs in a season of about five months, but sometimes reaching 100 eggs during that time. [10]: 371 [9]: 5 The eggs weigh about 120 g, rather less than those of other geese.