NOT UP ON GOATS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2113, 1 December 1880, Page 3

NOT UP ON GOATS.

The goat is an every-day sight, and the man who does not study him and learn his ways and habits has only himself to blame. Saturday forenoon a “ William” was quietly feeding on Columbia street when a load of household goods wont past. The owner kept pace with the waggon, carrying under his arm a fine mirror about sft. long. As he came opposite the goat he met a friend, and of course he had to stop and tell why he was changing locations, and how much he expected to be benefitted. The glass was heavy, and he naturally dropped one end to the walk to rest his arm. Had this man been a close observer ho wonld have seen the goat and wished ho had a brickbat. Had he made goat nature a study he wonld have known better than to lower the glass. But he was a man who despised the trifles of life, and he was telling how many tons of coal the new house would save him f.his winter, when the goat, who had been getting mad for two long minutes at sight of a rival in the mirror, went through the glass like a thunderbolt, and jumped into the street with the frame clinging to his shaggy sides. All that ripping, and raving, and cussing—all the opening of front doors—all the inquiries by an excited crowd could have been saved had the citizens but beckoned to the smallest boy on the street and asked him to give away a few points on goats. “ Examiner.”