Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-02-12
MY MEAT.
BY COBB WEB.

The boys are all pretty nigh tight,
And Il soon win be time to close up,
And then, IL I know myself right,
III take the change out Of that pup.
He stands there, in shiny store clothes,
A gazing with Kate at the bar;
He's a nice duck (sss These stars stand for
I'll teach him he's got no show thar.
He's drunk a. an owl that's been billed,
And he'sdead stuck in love with the gal;
Ny coyey, your game will be spilled
Take my gal!-I'm bowed II you shall.
I'll spoil your neat fitting Wards Shirt,
Just wait till you get In the street;
There's some one I know will get hurt,
I'm laying for y~ou-you're my meat.
I don't pretend to say that the above 10
vsry original ; it strikes mt that the Lam
guase seems curiously familiar. but then it
requires SOM genius to steal with adroit.
ness, and I admire genius in the abstract,
no matter in what form It crops out.
Even q we'll played practical joke has its
merits, and the best outcropping in that
line I have heard Of lately came of In the
upper part Of the city one day last week.
For lack Of a better title, I will call Il
N AFFECTING STORY OF II BrLLT-aoAr.
II seems that q few days since, Captain
Cook, Of the police force, was sent in quest
Of q bllly-goat which It was rumored had
been committing d~epredations on Russian
Hill, and which he proposed to arrest on
sight, with . possible idea Of having an
inquest held on the corpus Of the ruthless
disturber of the public peace and destroyer
Of rose bushes, etc., Is soon a. q jury
could be obtained to set on him. In the
course Of his search he entered Q grocery
on Pacific street, near Taylor, and in
quired Of the party engaged in the intel
lectuRl game Of "antey and pass the
bucque," new game, somewhat resem-
bling "besique," but moro complicated,
and requiring . greater amount OF talent
to play Il well-f any family In the neigh
borhood kept . goat Of the masculine
gender, and advanced years. It 90 hap
peped that in the immediate vicinity of
the aforesaid grocery dwells Q family,
whose head Il generally wonderfully and
fearfully gotten up when he appears on
the street, and who u called "the Billy
Goat" a. Q term Of afectionate familiar
ity, By the neighbour. Divers young
cclored individuals, having become aware
Of tho fact that the aforesaid gentleman
bore the above soxbriq1ss, have been in the
habit of calling after him - he passed
them on the sidewalk, to inquire after the
welfare Of his family, etc., and the thing
had lost its novelty, and become, In the
course Of time, . bore and . nuisance to
such an extent that the bearer OF the high
favored sou6risns would, on some occa-
lions, attempt 70 take sudden revenge on
his tormentors for the insult thus put
upon him. What should the party, Of
whom Cook inquired, do, but tell him in
reply, that there was . familyin the neigh
borhood who kept q billy-gost but that
the creature was Q great nuisance in the
~neiRhborhood, and that II he did notmake
his inquiries Of the man Of the house, in
person." he would not be allowed to see It.
Cook bolted ovsr 70 the house, put on his
stsrland knocked at the door. The man
Of the house came ont; Cook informed
him that he bad been searching for ably
goat, which had become q great nuisance
In the n~eighborhood. and had been told,
on good authority. that the animal was
kept blythe family residing In this house.
Tho proprietor Of the house, ct this, grew
suddenly black In the face, and COM
msnced swelling up 70 . degree whichim.
pressed Cook with the idea that he was
rirrsd with IN internal torpedo, and was