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loudly his innocence of tricks; but under his ragged jacket he 
has a skin of water, with a tube extending down his sleeve. In 
Italy a kind of cream cheese (ricotta) is made from Goats’ milk, 
and is sold in the streets, being much appreciated as sweet, and 
palatable. The vendors carry it on their heads like our muffin 
sellers, and retail it at so much a centime. 
Sir Wm. Broadbent, writing about the prevention of pulmonary 
tuberculosis, says “‘ it is interesting to note that asses, and Goats, 
do not suffer from this disease’; wherefore, adds Mrs. Earle in 
Pot Pourri, “ it is a continual surprise to me that Goats are not 
kept for supplying their milk to the Consumptive Sanatoriums.” 
Old Lord Chesterfield, in one of his famous letters to his son 
(London, March, 1759), wrote: ‘‘ I am rather better than I was, 
which I owe, not to my physicians, but to an ass, and a cow, 
who nourish me, between them, very plentifully, and whole- 
somely ; in the morning the ass is my nurse, at night the cow ; 
and I have just now bought a milch goat, which is to graze, and 
to nurse me at Blackheath. I do not know what may come 
of this latter, and I am not without apprehensions that it may 
make a satyr of me; but should I find that obscene disposition 
growing upon me I will check it in time, for fear of endangering 
my life, and character, by rapes.” Again, in another letter, 
from Italy, he records the fact that the Italian doctors had 
ordered for his lungs, then out of order, that he must drink 
asses’ milk twice a day, and Goats’ whey as often as he pleases, 
the oftener the better; whilst in his common diet they recom- 
mended an attention to pectorals, such as sago, barley, turnips, 
etc. In the Essay on Witches and Night Fears, Elia says : ‘* Nor, 
when the wicked are expressly symbolised in Scripture by a 
Goat, was it so much to be wondered at that by our ancestors 
(whom we are too hasty to set down in the gross as fools) the 
devil was thought to come sometimes in the body of this animal, 
and assert his metaphor.” It is a fact worthy of notice that 
where a goat is kept about a dwelling-place rats will not come. 
Dr. Robert Hutchison tells us that Goats’ milk, because 
stronger even than cows’ milk, is unsuitable for the use of infants. 
One hundred parts contain four and a half of proteid solids. 
Whey procured from this milk ranks between aliments, and 
medicines, being of high value in the treatment of patients 
debilitated by organic disease of the stomach, or intestines. 
Paul Kruger, when among the Boers (as recently told in his Life,) 
