THE FRIENDLY GOAT.

Globe, Volume IX, Issue 1303, 23 May 1878, Page 3

THE FRIENDLY GOAT.

For several weeks past a goat belonging to a family on Fourth street has been on very intimate terms with a family on Cherry street. He has had the run of the yard, poked his nose into the house, and been very successful in dodging clubs and brick-bats. Yesterday forenoon, when the said goat had finished eating up a good share of the week's washing, the man of the house was heard to remark—- ' I will now go into committee of the whole and fix that beast so that he will never bother a white man again 1' He ran to the grocery, purchased an old pack of fire-crackers, and at the end of ten minutes 'William' was fixed. He had firecrackers tied to his legs, tail and neck, and the plot was about to thicken. Ho went off with the first cracker, charging across the street. After cleaning out a grocery he upset a boy, went into a house by the front door, and came out of the back window, reached the street and rushed a dog a half a block, and finally disappeared in the same cloud of smoke with a runaway horse. A policeman was pacing Third street with a slow and solemn step, when a boy came thunderin along and called out—- ' Turn in a fire-alarm !' ' What's up ? What's up ? ' inquired the officer. ' Conflagration down here—big goat all on fire from basement to fourth storey—poys rolling him in tho mud, but the fiendish flames still creeping heavenwards —turn in an alarm for two enginos and a hook and ladder!'