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"What?" said Wilbur. "Say it slower!"

"At-at-at, at the risk of repeating myself," said the goose, "I suggest
that you come on out. It's wonderful out here."

"Did you say a board was loose?"

"That I did, that I did," said the goose.

Wilbur walked up to the fence and saw that the goose was right - one
board was loose. He put his head down, shut his eyes, and pushed. The
board gave way. In a minute he had squeezed through the fence and was
standing in the long grass outside his yard. The goose chuckled.

"How does it feel to be free?" she asked.

"I like it," said Wilbur. "That is, I _guess I like it."

Actually, Wilbur felt queer to be outside his fence, with nothing
between him and the big world.

"Where do you think I'd better go?"

"Anywhere you like, anywhere you like," said the goose. "Go down
through the orchard, root up the sod! Go down through the garden, dig
up the radishes! Root up everything! Eat grass! Look for corn! Look
for oats! Run all over! Skip and dance, jump and prance! Go down
through the orchard and stroll in the woods! The world is a wonderful
place when you're young."

"I can see that," replied Wilbur. He gave a jump in the air, twirled,
ran a few steps, stopped, looked all around, sniffed the smells of
afternoon, and then set off walking down through the orchard. Pausing
in the shade of an apple tree, he put his strong snout into the ground
and began pushing, digging, and rooting. He felt very happy. He had
plowed up quite a piece of ground before anyone noticed him. Mrs.
Zuckerman was the first to see him. She saw him from the kitchen
window, and she immediately shouted for the men.

"Ho-mer!" she cried. "Pig's out! Lurvy! Pig's out! Homer!

Lurvy! Pig's out. He's down there under that apple tree."

"Now the trouble starts," thought Wilbur. "Now I'll catch it."

The goose heard the racket and she, too, started hollering.

"Run-run-run downhill, make for the woods, the woods!" she shouted to
Wilbur. "They'll never-never-never catch you in the woods."