The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-10-18
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HkXUGHUk sNOa1&Y b1h VI" ttkG and then timidiy at her husband. m, dear. wonder hos that goat got into cur yard 2"
 looking up from his br-ss'ss,
 sWhy, the goat that's o1t there"
 aOhw grunted Mr. Spoooendyke. ao- preaching the window. You mean that one, do you? The principles tha, gerer- ally regulate your conversation betrayed me into thinking tha, your mind might be fixed on some other goat As for him. 1 suppose he hrose through the fence from the back io,-ot." continued MT. Spoopencyke, hasiily. correcting him. self, "perhaps he came 10 call on you Better ask h,m in"
 I'm afrasd of him." peeped Mrs Spoopenus ke, dra~ing closer to her hus- band. "Wnat do you think we had better do? If he stays ou, there hell eat up eveDthing."
 "l believe I'll go and drive him oI.," said MT. Spoopendyke, eyeing the brute with no particular amount of favor You come along to head him of, and yosTl soon see a goat begin to wish he had been born a giri that some one might learn tc love him." And with tnis prog nosticAtion Mir. Spoopendyke sallied forth followed by his wife.
 Be careful she whispered. "When goats get angry, they ',us,, and ,ha, hurts '
 "Shoo.' commef ced Mir. S2oopen- dyke, waving h,s hands and folio wing the goa, to a hole in the fence. where a couple of boards a-d been knocked out @Shoo there, nos. Ski Hold on. Head him, cantye Turn him. Whoop." he roaTed, as tae goat whirled suddenly and dashed ts. the other end of the yard. "What'd ye come out here forg" he de- manded of his wife, who had made q little better time than the goat. and had reached th: top of a step ladder.
 Don's let him come up here.' she squealed, stamping her feet on the top step, snd trying to climb up the side oi the saouse. Hold on to him and call a policeman.
 "Great seheme!" growled Mfr. Spoop- endyke, looking around for stick. '' Bu, haven't made up my mind whether to cali the policeman, or do the holding on first. What're ye making stucco-work of yourself up there for? Come down, and get behind that goat, will ye, while teach him the ways and admonisions ot Spoopendyke. If you ain't mighty careful, he'll rub up against ,ha, sep ladder, an you're liable to come down in sectionsw
 This prophecy brought Mrs. Spoop- endyke to the ground without much delay
 Say, dear she suggested, suppose you should go to the other side of the hole, and cali him. Don't you think he d comeT
 Come in a minute, if happened to hit his right name," retor,ed Mir. Spoop- endyke, who had found stick, and was preparing for war. "Now, you edge around behind him, so as to give him e starter, and I'll put myself in communi- cation with him as soon as he gets under way"
 .Go along, dear. Run through tha, pretty little hole like good goat" fal. tered Mrs. Spoopendyke, apostrophizing the animal in a purely feminine fashion "Shoo, dear, now, and be real niee.s The goat looked at her, thereby freezing her blood, and started slowly for the bot. tom of the yard
 "Yes, love!" ripped MT. Spoopendyke, bringing his stick down on the back oi the beast with vindictive grin. There's a nice little opening for goats that $ awaiting 6or thee!" and down came the stick once more.
 Whe-e-e-e" squealed Mrs. Spoopen- dyke, as the goat whirled around like . turn-table, and faced all the points of the compass af once. He ,.ast be looking for the place to get out, isn't he? What do you suppose makes him act that way Whe-e-e-ew
 The last yell was extracted by a sudden straightening up of the goat, who tore around the yard like cat in fit.
 With that headway on, he'u be apt to go through the hole in the fence if he ever hits il" observed Mir. Spoopendyke, who had joined his wife in the middle oi the circuit rather precipitously. "l think Itmust have struck him a little harder than he meant to have me. Now, you get behind him again, and we'll fix him so that the next time he sees a hole in our fence he1i get hamme. and board up the temptation"
 Mrs. Spoopendyke eeled along the fence, and took her station with consider- able perturbation. The goat came down to trot, and finally stopped and looked a trife bewildered. Mir. Spoopendyke grasped his stick with firmer grip, and hguratively speaking, waited for hIs wife to deliver the bali.
 Now start him." said he
 Mrs. Spoopendyke waved her apron, and the goat aiming straight at the hole in the fence bore down upon it with three hundred goat power. Mir. Spoopendyke aimed lick at him, and went iumui,u- ously through the hole as the goat struck the fence and bounded back.
 "Great gracious!' eiaculaied Mrs. Spoopendyke. swarming up the step ladder and squasting a. the top Are yor hHrt, dear!
 sHurtr hovled MT. Spoopendyke, peeping through the hole and contempla- ting his wife with savage glare Think I'm a aaii, to come through board fence