title: A Tale of Proper Gander (Boyduck Goose: His Life and Times, Book 2)
author: Harriet Lila Baker
description: Harriet Lila Baker is a retired schoolteacher whose specialty areas included special education, reading specialist, and elementary education. Her interests include horses, dog breeding, tennis, swimming, and of course, writing and reading poetry and prose. She and her husband have raised two children.<br /><br /> The first book of the series, <i>My Name is Boyduck and This Is My Story</i>, is also available from Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc.<br /><br />
zlib_text: Introduction
  My favourite pages of this remarkable book have nothing to do with geese.
  They happen in a diner in South Dakota called Dally’s, which serves its
  coffee from a ‘stainless steel Bunn-O-Matic urn’, and houses its cinnamon
  rolls under ‘scuffed Perspex domes’. Stuck in Dakota for a week, the
  narrator becomes a regular at Dally’s. It’s where he waits, and it’s where he
  watches: the ‘slow-turning window fans’; the customers putting their
  shoulders to the ‘surprisingly heavy’ glass front door, then taking their seats
  at the ‘red leatherette booths, sprung like mattresses’; and the two
  waitresses in their twenties, Misti and Crystal, who keep the place ship-
  shape:
  They wore green-and-white-striped work frocks. Crystal had black hair furled in a bun at the
  crown; Misti’s bleached-blonde curls tumbled off the escarpments of her shoulder-pads. They
  passed orders through a hatch to an invisible chef, and drank the dregs of milkshakes straight
  from the blender, priests knocking back t