NO PUZZLE TO HER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 309, 26 October 1880, Page 2

NO PUZZLE TO HER.

It was Mary Do wan wh took his place. She keeps a goat. Her grind-, mother and m>t ler kept goats, and it will bo her dying request that all her daughters keep at least one apiece. The other day her goat was hunting up and down the sidewalk for scrap-iron, oystercans lost children, or anything else to subdue his hunger, when along came a high-headed, portly man wh.i brought cane down with a thump ? thump ! at every step. He didn't see the goat, but it answered every purpose that the goat saw him. He had his eyes on the second-story windows when the goat doubled up, straightened out, and struck him just where a porous-plaster has the beet hold on a lame man’s back. The Turk awoke. That is, the man with the cane sprawled over more sidewalk than two raencou ! d lay in a day ; and while he was trying to make out whether he had been struck by lightering or lifted by a cyclone, the goat sailed in and had heaps of fun w : th his plug hat. When the victim got up he meant to sweep that g'at into nowhere in ten seconds, but Mary ran cut and said she’d bang him to Halifax if he made one motion. They were wrestling with the goat question when an officer came along and took her in. *• The man himself was to blame, sir,” said Mary, when the testimony was all in. He had no busineea to go thumping past my house the way be did. He might have known that ray goat wouldn’t take" a defie from any one. “ But yon went out and added insult to injury,” said his Honor. “Oh no, sir. Al I said was that if he laid a hand on that goat I’d make splinters of him. I’m sure he can’t lay it up again me, sir.” “ Mary, you are fined five dollars.” « Lands alive ! but for what ?” “ For disturbing the peace. We won’t talk any more about it just now. Pay your fine and go home and kill that goat.” <• I’ll pay, sir; but as for killing Thespus, Iwould’nt do it for the world. Here is the money, and it’s a dying shame to take it from me. I kept ten goats in Chicago and no one ever said a word to me. How can yen expect that—?”

She might have beeen talking yet if Bijah hadn't gently her to the door, where she luforraed.hiiuthat if .she his feet she'd rent her boot* y lor giving river excursion*.