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THE GOAT. 
them about with an unpleasant pertinacity' 
like dogs. 
A similar circumstance occurred to the edi' 
tors of the English translation of Cuvier*" 
Animal Kingdom, when landing from a boii* 
on a precipitous and woody bank on the shot^ 
of the lake of Thun, in Switzerland, which 
much frequented by these animals that 
seldom removed by their owners, a numbd 
of goats and kids came bleating towards thei* 
and went directly into the boat. Such 
their familiarity, that, though they wante*) 
neither water, food, nor shelter, and in thf^ 
wild country they could not be accustomed 
the sight of human beings, it was a difficul* 
task to drive them away. 
Sonnini, in his edition of Buffon’s Naturi^^ 
History, has recorded a curious instance 
the readiness with which the she -goat wi*' 
permit herself to be sucked by animals of ^ 
different kind, and even of much larger si^^ 
