THE GOAT 

 SUGGESTIONS 



The query, "What do goats eat?" was addressed to a 

 gentleman who is very familiar with the character and habits 

 of the Billy in the following sketch. He wrote: "Goats eat 

 most everything from tree trunks in the forests, to harnesses in 

 the stable. Billy got at our carriages and ate the enamel from 

 the shafts; he ate the bark from our trees, and I don't know 

 what would have happened if he had gotten into the coal bin. 

 He insisted upon sampling everything he saw. When deigning 

 to partake of food he ate a little corn, sometimes a few oats, a 

 bit of hay, a morsel of grass, and other green stuff, but only a 

 little of any one thing. 



"He was exceedingly temperate in the matter of drink, 

 drinking infrequently and but a little, and usually his beverage 

 was water. 



"The goat is the most liberal liver in the world when some 

 body else provides the stuff. His extravagance at others' ex- 

 pense is something marvelous." 



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