DOT GOAT.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 292, 6 May 1879, Page 2

DOT GOAT .

[to de editor] Zir, —I'm more madt as anydings efer vas. I am in mem ped last veek yon night yen I hear down in die Vimangarpa a gry like " rha," only mooch louter as I write it. " Mem Gott," I dink, " dot ist a shild in die rifer," unt I shump out, und dress myself mit mem hat, und den greep down to die rifer pank. It vas as dark as tree nights, put I shust see somedings vite on a pouldar, " Hi dere," I say, " vat you am',? " M—a!" he say, so lout und pitter dot I pegin to veep till I nearly gry. But 1 not like to touch mem foot mit die vater, so I not go in yet. Den I ask vere his f ater, unt he say " Ma" again. So I dink he not undershtant my English, pecauso I seem shpeak English mit der left hand, but I shvear petter as eferybody efer vas. \ So I shust shpeak five or six pig shvears, and den dot shild, say •' M—a," again so pitter dot I was have to go in after him. Mem Gott! dot vater vas as colt dot it shilled die marrow in mem aoul. But I put one foot in, ant den I putanoderin unt I say: " I gome, mem shild I gome," unt I spheak nice to him as I go. It vas so dark dot! vas haf to zee him mit mem ,hant, unt yen I touch him he feel like unt as soon as I touch him he say "Ma 1" more lout unt pitter still, unt shumped five thousand feet, unt vas riovere. Den I know dot shild vas a goat. Dunder! I bulled mem self out of dot rifer by die hair of mem head, and kicked mem self into mem hut tint hammert mem self till I not shtant it no more. Mem Gott? I dink if I vas somebody else dat I vould kill mem BQlf. Hans Tannebhausen.