The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-06-06

since we Insulated him into the Masona
with the goat he wouldn't have . goat
around no how. The doc told pa the
other kind of a goat, I think it was a
Samantha goat he said, wouldn't kick
with its head, and pa sent me up into the
Polack settlement to see il l couldn't
borrow milk goat for few weeks.
got woman to lend US her goat till the
baby got big enough to chew beef, for a
dollar week, and paid q dollar in ad-
vance, and pa went up in the evening to
help me get the goat. Well, 1t was the
darndest mistake you ever see. There
was two goats SO near alike you couldn't
tell which was the goat we leased, and
the other goat was the chum of our goat,
but it belonged to Nirish woman. We
got bed cord hitched around the Irish
goat, and the goat didn't recognize the
lease, and when we tried to jerk it along
it rared right up, and made things real
quick for pa. I don't know what there
is about goat that makes it get 90
spunky, but that goat seemed to have
grudge against pa from the first. If there
were any places on pas manly form that
the goat did not explore, with its head,
pa don't know where the places are. O,
it damned him, and when LATED pa got
mad. told him every man ought u
furnish his own goats, when he had
badly, and I let go Of the rope and started
of, and pa said he knew how it was, l
wanted to get him killed. It wasn't that
but l saw the Irish woman that owned
the goat coming around the corner of
the house with cistern pole. Just aspa
was getting the goat out of the gate the
goat got crossways of the gate, and pa
yanked, and doubled the goat right up,
and I thought he had broke the goats
neck, and the woman thought so, too,
for she jabbed pa with the cistern pole
just below the belt, and she tried to get
a hold on pas hair, but he had her there.
No woman can ever get the advantage of
pa that way, cause ma has tried it. Well,
pa explained it to the woman, and she
let pa off if he would pay her two dollars
for damages for her goat, and he paid It,
and then we took the nanny goat, and it
went right along with us But l have
got my opinion of a baby that will drink
goats milk. Gosh, it is like that stuff
that comes in spoiled oocoanut The
baby hasn't done anything but blat since
the nurse has coupled it onto that goat
hydrant. ! had 70 take all my playthings
out Of the basement to keepthe goat from
eating them. guess the milk will taste
Of powder and singed hair now The
goat got to eating some roman candles
me and my chum had laid away in the
coal bin, and chewed around the furnace,
and the powder leaked out and eoAl
fell out of the furnace on the hearth, and
you'd dide to see pa and the hired ei..
and the goat. You zee pa can't milk
anything hut a milk wagon, and he got
the hired girl to milk the goat, and they
were just hunting around the basement
for the goat, with a tin cup, when the
fireworka went off. Well, there was balls
of green and red and blue fire, and spill
ed powder blazed up, and the goat just
looked astonished, and looked on as if it
was sorry so much good fodder was spoil.
ed, but when it's hair began to hurA the
goat gave one snort and vent between
pa and the hired girl like il was shot out
of a cannon, and it knocked pa over q
wash boiler into coal bin, and the hired
girl In amongst the kindling wood, and
she crossed herself and repeated the cat-
ekism and the goat jumped ON top the
brick furnace, and they couldn't get il
down. I heard the celebration and went
down and took pa by the pants and
pulled him out of the coal bin, and said
he would surrender and plead guilty Of
being the biggest fool in Milwaukee.
pulled the kindling wood off the hired
girl, and then she got mad, and said abe
would milk that goat or die. q. that girl
has got sand. She uaed 10 work in the
glass factory. Well, sir, II was sight
worth two shillings admission to see that
hired girl get up ON step ladder to milk
that goat on ton of the furnace, with pa
sitting on barrel of potatoes bossing the
job. They are going to fix gang planl.
to get that goat down of the furnace. The
baby kicked on the milk last night. !
guess besides tasting of powder and burnt
hair, the milk was too warm on account
of the furnace. Pa has got to grow a new
lot of hair on that goat or the woman
won't take it back. She don't, want no
bald goat. Well, they can run the baby
and goat to suit themselves, cause have
resigned. l have gone into business.
Don't you smell anything that would
lead you to surmise that had gone into
business? "No drug store this time, y
and tie boy got up and put his thumbs
in the armholes of his vest and looked
proud.
20, don't know as smell anything,
except the faint odor of horse blanket.
What you gone into, anywav?" and the
grocery man put the wrapping paper
| under the counter and put the red chalk
IN his pocket, 80 the boy couldn't write
| any sign to hang up outside.
"You hit 1t the first time. l have &C.
cepted situation of teller in q livery
stable" said the boy, as he searched
around for the barrel of cut sugar, which
had been removed.
'Teller in a livery stable! Well, that
| is q new one on me. What Ks teller in
livery stable?" and the grocery man
looked pleased, and pointed the boy to q
barrel of seven-cent sugar.
"Don't you know what teller is in a
livery stable? 1t is the same as teller
| in bank. have to grease the harness
oil the buggies, and curry off the horses
and when man comes in to hire horse
l have to go down to the saloon and tell
the livery man. That's what teller Is
l like the teller part Of it, but greasine