Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-02-28
WRESTLING WITH A GOAT.
An Embarrassing Adventure with Male
Goat While Taking "A Swell.

AL ACKNOWLEDGING adventure WIFI UNIV
Goat While Taking n Swell.
my worst experience was wit goat
a long horned, bewhiskered iillygoat,"
said Bert Longan in yarn swapping
crowd at the Lindell. cat one OF the little
towns in the northwestern part of the state
where ] sold a pretty good bill once
month fair Dulcinea' resided. She was
just out of Vassar, and | hattered myself
that my leaving Princeton unceremonious
ly in my sophomore year did not hurt me
any with her. She was bright and witty
aud loved fun, and my house was getting
ready TO inquire into my reasons for max
Ing that town so often, when the incident
refer to occurred. We had one little tour
when we took a walk in the suburbs that
rather dotted on, and every time rolled
into town would 20 by her house as soon
as possible and we would take stfoll
along that street.
81 was making efforts to reach the town
one Sunday and was trying TO do two
stations on Saturday, when l slipped on
one of the customary country sidewalks
and dislocated my right arm. 1t was at
once put into place and in "A few hours
was going around about as usual, but the
doctor cautioned me to be careful, for If
made another break the result might be
serious. After thinking the matter over l
decided to run down and get some genuine
Vassar college sympathy from Miss Mary,
as we will call her, because that isn't her
name. Sunday morning, carryingmy band
aged arm in sling, | went up, looking
very pale, and got a bushel of sympathy
from pair of limpid blue eyes the very
first play.
Take walki Yes, and alongt the same
street was stuck on. You know how it is
Ia some towns; everything runs at large
hogs, cattle, sheep and even billygOats
Well, this Sunday morning a William
goat, whose antiquity would have been
supposed to guarantee better manners,
planted himself in our path and told us as
plainly as words could to get out. Miss
Mary sprang back with a little scream az
Sir William came at me My right arm
was useless of course, but stepped nimbly
to one one side and caught the doughty
warrior by the horn as he came past with
head down,
Ever tackle a William goat? A really
wide awake, rambunctious William goats
Nor Well, don't want TO thrust my adj
vice on you. but don't. At least not unless
you have more than one hand. In fact |
should say not unless you have half dozen
hands. My billygoat, l should say, was I'M
usual-at least l should hope so. i should
hesitate to believe that any other billygoat
has, or ever had, the same number of COM
pound and complex steel springs in his
anatomy. OF course | froze TO him; | had
TO- And every time he would double him
self up and let himself out the figure we
would cut must have been attractive. /
admit my legs are rather long and nature
evidently intended my feet for Chicago, but
Is that any reason why fellows girl
should sit on fence and hurt herself
laughing while he is playing windmill in
the airS How long did it lastl Oh, it
seemed like a week or so, but guess it was
about an hour.
1.-THE folks were all coming home from
church as Sir William and / crawled out
from different sides of the black muddy
pool by the side of the road, in the bottom
of which we had finished up our last
round. We were both willing to call it a
draw, and | didn't blame the scandalized
church people who looked on in horror.
Even the billygoat's owner didn't know
him, for he was white when we first entered
the ring. But then so was !, and had a
tie and collar and hat and several other
similar little addenda to a gentleman's
toilet, which were shed in spots over the
commons. Explanations No indeed. /
heard the rumble of an old freight train,
and as there was a crossing near at which
1t had to stop, | ran over and caught it
My fair DUlcineas Married I understand
have never been back there since. "-St
Louis Globe-Democrat.