Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-06
OUR GOAT?"

perity no better than your father can. They
will wrangle among themselves and they will
never take the sheep away from the tavern.
But they shall be punished. Come with me-
"Uncle rain went out into his barnyard,
and the boy followed him. He went to a
stall where a black COW was tied. This said
he, is the butting cow. You are to take her
with you. She will allow no one to come
near her but you, and when you give her the
word she will run over and knock down who
ever and whatever is In sight. She knows
the black sheep, too, for they have long been
In the barn together. When she begins to
low the black sheep will bleat, and in that
way you may know when you have found 1t.
More than that the COW will give you the
most beautiful golden butter that ever was
SEEM
"Uncle Rain united the COW, placed the
end Of the rope in the boys hand and babe
him good by. The boy went back the way
he came, the COW following closely and SEEM
Ing to be eager to go with him.
THE girl who had taken the road to
Brother Drouth's house arrived there safely
and told her trouble. Brother Drouth said
he was very sorry about 1t, but as 1t was
not a thing to weep over he didn't propose
to shed any tears.
whats done,' he said, cant be undone;
but I'll see that it's not done over again. He
went to a corner Of the room, picked up a
walking-stick and gave 1t to the little girl.
we have here he said, "a walking stick.
1t is called the hitting stick. Whenever you
are In danger, or whenever you want to
punish your enemies, you have only to say:
Hit, stick! Stick, hit! and neither one man
nor a hundred can stand up against 1t. 1t
is not too heavy for you to carry, but If your
hands grow tired Of carrying it, just say,
Jump, stick! and the stick will jump along
before you, or by your side, Just as you
please
by, and she went on her way, sometimes
carrying the hitting stick and sometimes
making 1t jump along the road before her.
"Now, then, while all this was going on
the greedy merchants found themselves in a
fix, When they first got hold of the coal-black
sheep and the snow-white goat, they thought
that they had had a good deal Of trouble for
nothing. Rut notwithstanding the mer-
chants Of those days, when there was not as
much trade as there is now-had very sharp
eyes, and 1t was not long before they found
the springs under the horns Of the sheep and
the goat. Having found the treasure, they
that the man had spent more
money In two days than the horns OF the
animals would hold, and this led them to
discover that the horns were always full Of
treasure.
"For a little while they were very happy,
and congratulated one another many times
over. But in the midst Of their enjoyment
the thought came to them that there must
be a division Of this treasure. The moment
the subject was preached the wrangle began.
chants and the great question was how to
There were more than a dozen of these mer-
divide the treasure so that each might have
an equal share. Though they took millions
from the horns Of the black sheep and the
white goat. yet whoever had the animals
would still have the most.
1T was a mighty serious question. They
argued. they reasoned. they disputed and
they wrangled, and once or twice they came
near having a pitched battle, But finally,
after many days, II was decided that one
party OF merchants should have the black
sheep and that another party should have
the white goat. This didn't satisfy all Of
them, but It was the best that could be done.
and so they separated. the party with the
white goat going south, and the party with
the black sheep going east.
"Now a very curious thing happened. II
either party had kept on travelling II would
have met the boy or the girl-one with the
butting COW and the other with the hitting
stick. But both parties were dissatisfied, and
they had gone but a little way before they
stopped. and after some talk, determined to
go back. The merchants with the white goat
determined to follow on after the merchants
that had the b lack sheep and secure the ami
NAL by fair means or foul. The merchants
with the black sheep determined to follow
the merchants with the white goat and buy