GOAT WAS A BALSHEVIK.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1919, Page 2

GOAT WAS A BALSHEVIK.

!'l‘_»'\.l{E ALL .=\i\'D GIVE NOTHING. ' . I found him standing looking at his gout. feeding on a stunted gorse bush I on the heath (writes “E.J.S.” in TllO jD:lily Chronicle. He turned at my approach with :1 ::.urly e.\:pl'ossion, but-. when he recognised me it changed into the ear-to-ear Isrnile Ct’ gm-;~tiii_o; he I'eS(~rVes for his fEl'iOlldF. “Cher oh! " I opened with; “what "s wrong with the uixiina-l.‘!” “\\'l'ollg‘?"’ he exploded. “'What riglit., _._\'on mean.’ "Ht-i'v's /:1 lblessed beast" eats about ‘alt’ a. lieutli 3. day, .‘1II(l do I got. 2fl'll_Y milk from lieri’ Not :1 [,~int- I’nl fed up.” The goat I'l‘.-del_\i' .’n-‘.er:'upted his con- ‘ \':‘1‘SElllOI1 :11‘ this point. W'hilst he had I l)O'v11 holding forth on :1 delinquent, the animal had discovez-ed that the light l(‘l‘l:1lI1 only required one jerk to l)l'lll;_;‘ the stake out of the ground. and now l doli\'ol'ed :1 kind of’ on':i='elillg flunk at-::n-k with all the \'im of :1 _\'oung Tank l')l"Jl‘.;;{‘lll." up on Bovril. He sturnbled forward. eauglrt. his foot, and fell violently into rl}-' arnis. and we (éollapsml toj_g'ei'liei' on to :1 pzirti.‘ cularly spiteful gorse b'l%h. Aul ‘hut, ; in the language of dim ;1'4t.~: amt thr ‘ tin hat on it! 1 , The oiitmgod owner scrambled up bubbling with incoherent l)l{I.»Spl1CI11y. “Bolshevikker, that is what. she is!” he \~crathfully oxe«l:iililq'(l.. /“I~le':e’s me what looked after her with my ownluimls. staked her out in the thickest I stuff. and t'v.-telter her in every night. t €'_‘Ot not a drop of milk from her, and I this is what happens; she, swipes me, i her best friend. and guys off at about [ rzinetjr. . . . . ."’ He paused for want of breath. and thoughtfully cooled down a few degrecs. “»"*lH".<. jilist like one of thmn Bolshic boys. ain’t slice. chnnmiic‘?" he re.snmed. “She thinks she’s the Only‘ T.'[‘., she reckons to take all an’ give nothin’. burst up me an’ all creation, and then gkid off’ lnu-gliin.’ . . . . ” His irloas of Bolshovi.<m wt-rr-. unconvv‘litiontll,l)llt. . . . . . I