A Goaf
Tale
-Edwaid GcorqesonI grew up on Our farm was no
child,
thing
We
many farms have
had goats,
animals.
is
was
lots
of them.
I
and occasionally gave
in to the
urge to
different.
annoying
typical
One
a farm.
a
tease them.
Female goats are known
as "nannies"
and are not fun
to tease,
because they don't fight back, they just run away. Chasing them a
little
unlike
human
are
known
any
can't harass just
and are very fun
as "billies"
because they fight back. Now,
when you're
human
No, you want
full
to find
one
that
is
about half-grown, one going
this age, the
average billy
aggressive, and willing to fight back, but too
much of anything. Not
This story
day when in a
ten years old,
males.
through puberty, so to speak. At
pid to do
pen
1
all
to tease,
you grown ones are own body fluids. Not
because the
billy goat,
too irritable, strong, and soaked in their
torial,
is
Not
to catch.
females.
Male goats
unlike
boy
fun, but they run too fast for an average
is
unlike
human
about one such billy goat that
is terri-
weak and
I
discovered one
should have been doing something productive.
He was
by himself, he was about half grown, and he had
look of utter and total hatred on his face.
stu-
adolescents.
He looked
a
a lot like
Satan, actually. Overall, he looked like fun. 1
climbed
into the
He wanted me
pen and spent about an hour annoying him.
out, but all
horns, which didn't hurt horns, spinning ing
him
he could do was butt
at all.
him around
1
1
with his
remember grabbing him by
in a circle,
dizzily hobble after me. This
Disneyland. However,
me
little
the
and running away, watch-
was more fun than
eventually lost interest and
left
the poor
goat alone. 1
him again for some time, until about six was out stacking firewood. He went walking
did not encounter
months
later
when
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