The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-07-03
TALES OF TOWN

Inc man VINO never DouRnt u Rol
brick has never transacted very muc
business.
y Anybody can fly high and not ge
= hurt. II Is the landing that bruise
and wrecks.
n A teacher in one Of our countr,
q schools wrote the word dogma" OF
!, the black board and asked her pupils
TO form a sentence containing the
Z word. and among those handed IN
, found this one, "Our dogma has three
pups"
There is a good deal In the papers
these days about high explosives" re-
marked Old Bill MisRivens, (which
brings 10 mind the remarkable ease Of
Eli Petcrs's pet William goat. sup
pose there never was goat that gave
off any ranker smell in proportion to
his bulk than that goat Of Ellis, and
| never saw goat that had such
promiscucus and neyersatisfied appe-
| tite. There didn't seem 10 be any dis
elimination whatever In the appetite
Of that goat. What he seemed to want
was bulk more than anything else He
would jost chew up and swaller what
ever happened to be handy--a cabbage
head, or an old boot or a shirt--it was
all the same to him. One day Eli was
preparin' to blast out some stumps and
had bought few sticks Of dynamite.
The goat happened to run onto them
sticks Of dynamite and concluded to
sample 'em. The more he chewed on
them the better pleased he seemed to
be and when Ell discovered him he was
just putin away the last Of them ex-
plosiyias. II made Eli so doggoned
mad that his first impulse was to bust
that goat with a board or rock, but
just in the nick of time 1t occurred TO
him that ii might not be safe. He was
familiar with dynamite and knew that
il might be exploded with sudden
jar, so he contented himself with adj
iressiu' the goat in language Of great
gigor and considerably prcfane, but :
he goat didn't mind that particle.
lust looked at Eli in calm, self-sat-
SIZED manner, as if to say, "lf you
ave any other new kinds of proven
Ter, let me know Next door TO Eli :
wed the Wilder Malone She was =
wash lady who was possessed OF
ather violent temper and she had no
oye for goats in general and for Ellis "
William goat in particular She had '
aught him dcvourin' pair Of draw
RS on one occasion and she made Eli
liz up for the value Of the garment. n,
hich was painful to Eli because ~ S
ne fact that he hated as bad as any Il
ian in the county 60 be pried loose r
ON a dollar. The day the goat chew "
/ up that dynamite the wilder had a -
ashin hangin' out on the line in right ~ a,
ose proximity TO ELS fence; so close q,
fact that the goat by plarin' his
ont feet on the fence could easily
Ike a bite Of clothin' from the line.
lere was one red shirt hangin' on the es
le that seemed to sort of tempt his or
petite, altho you might suppose that 80
goat with couple of sticks of dyna-
lie inside of him together with lot -,
other miscellaneous junk of one du
nd and another would not want any ten
IRE food that day, but that goat acl
yer seemed to get enough. And then,
tin had become u habit with him.
he put his feet on the fence,
lched over and commenced to chew ~
that red shirt with look of as ~.
.ene satisfaction as you ever saw Tn
the countenance OF an anlnlie' tict
had got away with, perhaps, 9th
after of square yard of the shirt At
en- the Wilder Malone discovered Re-
\. She didn't seem TO be feeliu very TOO
Il that morning anyway and the IA,
hit of that goat just naturally riled ~
all over She grabbed up plank haa
l was lgin uRiihg oitN SN"i wv 80 ont
goat. Just then Eli come 10 his Ger,
r and took in the situation; "For to
Lords sake. Mrs. Malone" he Yell dist
don't hit that goat. He is load unit
The wilder thought that Eli was wer
tryin' 10 save his old goat and .ne
| made her madden thas eyer. n,
AIDED, is he7'' she yelled, as she
{ a better grip on the plank, Thin
the powers. I'll unload him. I'll T
h yer loud smellin' haste to eat if p
he shirts from off me clothesline.' of c
with that she whanged that goat lore
the back with all her might, and gus
n the wilder threw her full power esu'
she made hit. Well. the worst NJ.
Eli had feared happened. That his
blew up with noise that could the
card for mile or more. For half cam
our after that it continued to rain raig
n goat flesh and hair and horns prob
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