MOTHER GOOSE REDUX

               In  Honor  of   a  Special  Mother

Old Mother Goose, when She wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air on a very fine gander.
Mother Goose had a house, 'T was built in a wood,
Where an owl at the door for a sentinel stood.
She had a son Jack, a plain-looking lad; He was not
very good, nor yet very bad.  She sent him to market,
A live goose he bought; "Here! mother," says he,
"It will not go for nought."  Jack's goose and her gander
Grew very fond; They'd both eat together, or swim in
one pond.  Jack found one morning, as I have been told,
His goose had laid him an egg of pure gold.
Jack rode to his mother, the news for to tell.
She called him a good boy, and said it was well.