HE WAS A GOAT,
Just a common, every-day goat, with horns and a set of zuza whiskers. He was hungry. He could not find a thing to eat. He had wandered, down one alley and up another, but all the streets were clean. The health inspector had been round. There wasn't a scrap of rubbish, about— not even old tin-cans, — and the bills were glued so tight to the billboards that they; would not come off. The more he tried to find a snack the hungrier lie'got. All at once he caught sight of something fluttering in the wind. Running to it, he swallowed it without hesitation. Next morning he was dead. On turning him over they found the end of a newspaper sticking out of his mouth. Ha had swallowed everything but a big advertisement, saying that a certain cough mixture was as good as Loasby's " Benjamin Gum." Even a goat could not swallow that. He hadj turned over empty medicine bottles for years, and sipped the last few drops, so he was " some* thing of a judge himself." He knew there was nothing as good as Bear j&min Gum for coughs and colds,
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Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 9
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195HE WAS A GOAT, Otago Witness, Issue 2416, 28 June 1900, Page 9
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