Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-26
ALB AULDER'S GOAT.
BIZ JOHN W. HATToN .

Alb Aulder lived lonely life, for he could no
With kith nor kim nor friend nor foe 80 CROSS and
mean was he;
But Abner had weakness for dogs AMI poats and
And as often as he ate himself he fed the mice and
He loved his borses, cows and sheep, but most OF
Called Billy, whom he oft declared had sense
enough to vote.
Billy was SO very WISE twas Abner made him
For everywhere old Abner went the goat was sure
to go.
He taught the beast to fight the boys and drive
And laughed until his sides were sore at many a
frantic race.
Full many boy went limping home to nurse his
But never loitered thereabout nor pesterea Alb
again.
Aud when peddler CHANGED that way, to vend his
wares, tits said,
He paused without the gate awhile, to feel of
Bil1y's head
Which was as hard as any stone-he felt its hard
ness. too,
For Billy spread him on the ground and banged
him black and blue.
Bible agent came one day: pious man was he,
But Billy chased him out the yard and up ap-
pie tree.
From which the man of tracts made tracks, in
haste to get away,
When Billy left him for spell to MUNICH wisp of
hay.
And when the man of lightning rods came down to
AulderS farm,
Old Abner said the goat was tame, was sure he
meant no harm;
But the peddler drew his breath, he thought his
spine was rven
By something like thunderbolt as fast and fercely
driven.
Now all the neighbors Stunned the place; old Alb
was left alone.
In health in Sickness all the same, none heard his
ia PLANT p1aintiv re-; groan:
lite to save:
But all agreed that Billy should go with him to the
grave.
They'd kill that goat" when Abner should pass
in his checks" they said;
Some favored tortureal agreed kill the creature
dead.
Now Billy had grown Cross Of late, for want of ex-
He hated everything that moved his master, too,
despised.
But Abner loved him all the more, the meaner he
And chuckled at the mischief done, the money he
had saved.
He swore if Parson Brown would come that way to
sing and pray
He'd pay his salary for year, and plank it down
next day.
But Abner knew the parson would as lief whal-
Like JONAH to meet old Bill, and take his head in
The wicked shall not live, tbs said, but halt three
score and ten,
But AbDer had grown pretty old, and very gray. in
Sin;
And the goat was sure the DEVILS own, if goats are
owned below,
And all agreed where Abner went the goat was sure
to go.
Hard by, bridge Of logs was built, across a
chasm deep,
And to this bridge old Alb would go to mediate
and sleep.
Now Alb had bought some strychnine and soaked it
well in corn
To dose flock of turkeys that belonged to Mrs.
Dorm.
The poisoned grain he placed with care upon a
corner shelf;
No creature knew the secret dire, except old Alb
himself.
Then Abner hied him to the bridge to take his
MONDAY sleep,
While Billy eyed him from afar, plump, and fat,
and sleek.
He thought how funny it would be to pounce him
in the rear:
For Alb had learned him all these tricks and he
should have his share.
The neighbors found old Abner dead, down in the
gulch below;
"The goatl The goat" the farmers cried, "old
Billy now must go.n
But Billy had forestalled his foes; he'd eaten of the
His wicked master had prepared upon this fatal
morn.
MORAL.
Those who delight in giving pain will soon or late
be found
Caught in the trap, for others SET as they 90
sneakng round.
COLUMBIA. Mo.