Your Goose is Cooked
“You can shoot the goose here starting on Halloween”, the local bar owner told me. “Snow goose can be hunted a few weeks earlier but you won’t see any around here at that time”. That’s how the conversation went at Quacker’s Bar in Mound City, Missouri. Everyone seemed to be waiting for the coming hunting season when bird hunters, armed with shotguns would descend on the community and once again create welcomed seasonal full employment. An older man dressed in familiar farmer’s overalls added “Framings fun, until you run out of money”
Your Goose is Cooked