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reader will think of the Harlem goat and all it implies 

 of Shantytown, and the diet of tin-cans and bill- 

 boards. Undoubtedly the goat is popularly regarded 

 as a social outcast at least in America. The best 

 thing that has been said of it in the past is to call it 

 "the Poor Man's Cow." But in recent years the English 

 nobility have taken to goats and formed a society to 

 promote its interests, under a motto revised to read 

 "the Wise Man's Cow." The truth is that the goat, 

 when understood and well-cared for, is one of the most 

 interesting and useful of domestic animals, and has been 

 so regarded in many countries from the dawn of history. 

 The Bible is full of allusions to goats, their milk and 

 meat. And in that and much other ancient literature 

 they are always referred to in terms of respect. 



In this country it has happened that only the common 

 "Nanny" has been much in evidence. She has usually 

 been the makeshift of the poor, with no influential 

 friends to proclaim her virtues, though in recent years 

 it has been somewhat different. The public has begun 

 to discover that there are goats and goats, including 

 such aristocratic individuals as the Swiss Toggenburg, 

 the Saanen, and the Anglo-Nubian, with its distin- 

 guished Roman nose. Enthusiastic breeders and pro- 

 moters have sprung up, with their literature, their 

 periodicals and their societies, in consequence of which 

 the worthy milch goat is forging rapidly ahead in re- 

 spectability. In California, at least, the goat has found 

 its friends among the most refined and cultivated mem- 

 bers of society. The most prominent among these is 

 a young lady belonging to a well-known family, who 

 resigned her position as teacher of Greek and arch- 



