A Tame White Goat 



new surroundings. It was very familiar, 

 not only with the prospector, but with 

 strangers, and evidently regarded the 

 cabin as a kind of safety spot. Though 

 it would stray off into the surrounding 

 woods, it never ventured farther than 

 two or three hundred yards, and after an 

 absence of half an hour or so at the 

 longest, it would grow alarmed, and come 

 back at full speed, bounding along like 

 a wild buck through the woods, until it 

 reached what it evidently deemed its 

 haven of refuge. 



Its favorite abode was the roof of the;;' 

 cabin, at one corner of which, where the v 

 projecting ends of the logs were uneven, 

 it speedily found a kind of ladder, 

 which it would climb until the roof w; 

 reached. Sometimes it would promenad< 

 along the ridge, and at other times moun 

 the chimney, which it would hastil; 

 abandon, however, when a fire was lit. 

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