LibriVox recording of The Wonder Clock by Howard Pyle. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

There was a woman who owned a fine grey goose. "Tomorrow," said she, " I will pluck the goose for live feathers, so that I may take them to market and sell them for good hard money."

This the goose heard, and liked it not. " Why should I grow live feathers for other folks to pluck?' said she to herself. So off she went into the wide world with nothing upon her back but what belonged to her.......