Penelope shows her emotional connection to the geese when she speaks of how she loves to watch them and weeps when they are killed. She says, "I keep twenty geese in the house, from the water trough/ they come and peck at their wheat--I love to watch them all....But I wept and wailed-only a dream, of course--sobbing, stricken: the eagle killed my geese..." (19.605, 6
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