80 Domestic Animals 



shoot one, but what good would a dead goat be ? 

 Goat's meat is not very good, and it is milk, not meat, 

 that I want. How can I catch oner 5 Now you 

 remember Crusoe didn't give up very easily, so he 

 kept thinking about the goats. 



"At first he made some snares to trap them, but 

 they were too smart for him and always got away 

 after eating all the bait. Then he dug some deep 

 holes in a place where they liked to feed and put 

 some corn into the holes. The next day the corn 

 was gone, and he could see where the goats had 

 scrambled in and out. 



"Next he took some long, thin sticks and wove 

 some covers as you weave mats, and put these over 

 his holes. On top he put some leaves and corn, 

 and at the ends he put big stones to hold the covers 

 down. Then he went home to bed. The next day 

 he went to look at the traps and found that a big 

 Billy-goat had stepped on to the cover of one, and 

 that it had broken and let him through. He could 

 not get out, for the stones held the cover on, even if 

 he climbed up and tried to butt it with his horns. 



"He was so fierce Crusoe did not know what to 

 do with him, and besides he could give no milk, so 



