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XXV. A Word About Goats. 

 Mr. R. A. Haste in Farm Life gives th^ following practical informa- 

 tion on the subject of goats: 



The Angora Goat — A Coming Money-Maker. 



In the minds of most people a goat is a goat ; and the mental image 

 conjured up by that name is an impudent tramp who haunts back alleys 

 and revels in a diet of tin cans, or feasts upon unprotected dry goods 



IMPORTED ANGORA BUCK — GRAND CHAMPION PRIZE WINNER. 



swinging from low-hanging clothes lines — a four-footed Ishmaelite out- 

 side the pale of the law — a hairy, horned personification of lawless im- 

 pudence and worthless vagabondage. This is also the picture conveyed 

 by the parable of Holy Writ, wherein the shepherd divideth his flock, 

 placing the sheep upon his right hand, the goats upon his left. To be a 

 goat, then, is to be an irredeemable outcast consigned to everlasting 

 darkness. So it was in the days of parables, and so it is now in more 

 liberal times. In the classic language of the street to **butt in" is to 



