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owner. He had taught this animal, while he 

 accompanied its movements with a song, to mount 

 upon little cylindrical blocks of wood, placed 

 successively one above another, and in shape 

 resembling the dice-boxes belonging to a back- 

 gammon table. In this manner the Goat stood, 

 first on the top of one cylinder, then on the top 

 of two, and afterwards of three, four, five, and 

 six, until it remained balanced upon the summit 

 of them all, elevated several feet above the 

 ground, and with its four feet collected upon a 

 single point, without throwing down the dis- 

 jointed fabric whereon it stood. The diameter 

 of the upper cylinder, on which its four feet 

 alternately remained until the Arab had ended 

 his ditty, was only two inches ; and the length 

 of each, six inches. The most curious part of 

 the performance occurred afterwards; for the 

 Arab, to convince us of the animal's attention to 

 the turn of the air, interrupted the Da Capo; as 

 often as he did this, the Goat tottered, appeared 

 uneasy, and, upon his becoming suddenly silent 

 in the middle of his song, it fell to the ground. 



