The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-07-27

for the boys. He was nibbling the scant
heritage beside the street on the morn
ING of the Fourth, when he attracted the
attention of group OF the worst young
sters in the ward, and they resolved
npon the brilliant expedient of tying
bunch of crackers to his tail, just to see
what he would do. They surrounded
the goat, and, after infinite strategy and
final desperate battle, captured him.
Then came the task of attaching the
bunch of crackers to the animals tail,
and difficult task it proved. Goats in
general have no tail to speak of, and the
Monroe street goat in particular is
caudaIly deficient. His tail is bu5 an
inch long, perfectly smooth, and with an
unwavering tendency to point upward
toward the zenith. The boys tried half
an hour to fasten on the crackers with
out success, until finally one boy who
had learned to tie some kind of a sailors
knot accomplished the feat thoroughly
and satisfactorily. Then the crackers
we're ignited, and the boys formed
hollow square about the goat, awaiting
developments. At the first fizz of the
burning crackers the animal leaped per-
pendicularly five feet upward, and came
down stiff-legged, casting at the
same time dreadfully interested
look over it's shoulder at its rear.
AS the fzz changed into a flaming sput-
ter it leaped higher still and came down
more stiff legged than before, and then
began shying about sideways. The
boys, previous to affxing the crackers,
had taken the goat into yard with a
high board fence about it SO that it
couldn't get away, anyhow, but they
still preserved their hollow square to
observe the phenomena of the occasion
more closely. Soon the first cracker ex-
ploded, and then followed frightful
scene. The goat took in the situation
fully, and became a baneful Nemesis I!
With revengeful "bla-a-ah" and
rush, he knocked conner boy out OF
that hollow square and a rod away, and
then wheeled like lightning and charged
again The boys started for that fence
in wild stampede, but not one OF them
reached it. The goat shot about like
giant boomerang, and every time he
struck boy that boy went to grass
total wreck. The crackers roared and
famed, and the goat resembled comet
with fiery tail, careering through the
air as he bounded from side to side and
smote the hapless boys! Before the
bunch of crackers was half gone every
boy was down, and all afraid to get up
up again before the raging beast, save
one boy who was lying close by the
fence, and thought he might get over
before the whirlwind would reach him.
He made the attempt, but wasn't quick
enough, and dropped again just in time
to let the goat pass over him with ter
rible force, and pass through the fence
like a cannon ball, carrying off board
as he went. The boys rushed to the
gap thus made and saw ball of fire
far down the street going at the rate of
a thousand miles an hour, and they saw
no more goat Oh the Fourth of July.
On the next morning, however, the ami
NAL was feeding about its accustomed
haunts, and, but for the blackened ap-
pearance of its stump of a tail and a sim
lister CLEAN in it's eye, no one would have
suspected that it aided in celebrating the
centennial Fourth. So. Louis Repaeb-
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