News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1913-11-19

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tract attention when they walked out.
Adults stared, small boys INDUCED in
levity, and dogs seemed to have a
longing to try conclusions with
"Billy."
However, a fad wouldn't be much
of fad unless it attracted atten-
ton, and while Miss Nora tried to look
calm and unconscious, there is no
doubt that she felt CLOVIS of pride as
she caught such remarks as:
did you ever!"
Can you beat it,"
why don't she love hippo"
Hasn't she a father or a mother?"
"a hobble skirt and a pet goat.
thunder!"
Miss Morals father was dead and
her mothers objections to her fad car
ried no weight.
Does Billie bite any one?" the
daughter would ask.
"Of course not"
Does he bark and disturb us?"
NO"
Does he cost any more to keep
than a dog?"
81 guess not"
"He isn't handsome, but isn't he bet
ter looking than a bull dog?"
Eyes"
Then what's the matter with my
keeping a goat?"
IT'S so unusual"
Wasn't the split skirt unusual two
years ago."
Living half mile away was Mr..
Burt Wiltshire. He had a fad In
stead of leading a goS about the
streets, he led pig. 1t was black
pig with red ribbon for a collar 1t
had been trained so it could be led
like a dog. That pig was also
an innovation as we'll as a fad The
police had tried to suppress it, but
the courts had held that it had the
same rights as a dog and was not
half as dangerous.
Like the goat, the pig attracted
much attention when out for an air
ing, and like Miss Nora the young
man at the other end of the lead re-
ceived such expressions from the pub
lie as:
rs he an escaped IDIOT"
Does he belong to a side-show?"
Can the pig tell fortunes with
cards?"
1t might have ben figured out by a
mathematician that there was just
one chance in ten thousand that the
girl and her goat and the young man
and his pig would ever meet on the
street in a head-on collision. That
one chance came to them. 1t was so
willed by the Destiny that shapes our
ends. At nine o'clock one morning
Miss Nora and her goat were taking
promenade for their health and 9TH
er reasons. There was an abandon
about them that was charming. That
is. they occupied most of the sidewalk,
and their motto was, the public be
hanged.
At the same hour Mr.. Burt Wilt
shire and his educated black pig set
out for their stroll. They had here
tofore taken one particular direction.
This morning they took a new route
Destiny would have it so.
Get on to the goat"
"Whered he get the pigv
That's the latest thing at New
port!"
ooh, Lord, what things we do see
in town."
AS the public exclaimed the human
and animal objects gradually ap-
preached each other.
They finally met. There was no
record in sacred or profane history to
go by-no society rule laid down in
the blue or red book. Therefore the
Jim dandy goat and the educated pig
bumped against each other.
"Sir!" demanded the girl.
Miss" replied the man.
"You have got nasty pig there,"
"And you have a villain of a goat!"
Don't you dare let your pig"
"And your goat"
It was too late No work on natur-
al history--no writer on heart throbs |
in the yellow journals, has told us |
that when a pig ana a goat meet there |
must be a deadly conflict, but a rec !
ord has been made with this story. |
The goat was the attacker but the pig |
stood to his guns. The goat used his |
horns and hoofs; the pig used his |
snout and teeth.
Call your pig off"
call your goat Off"
"Your pig began the fuss!"
your goat began it"
"Yol are no gentleman"
you are a nice young LADY,"
A crowd gathered. That crowd