THE GOAT : SATYR AND GIPSY. 
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ing life and to sorcery, dainty of saltpetre — good girl on tlie 
whole, and good mother. The goat represents the gitana of pure 
blood, the gentle Esmeralda, the companion of the Satyr, the gem 
and the joy of the court of miracles, the unbridled poursuivante 
of amorous adventures. 
Poor race of victims, condemned by defeat and poverty to 
eternal vagabondage. A race which must disappear from the 
surface of the globe in proportion as societies gravitate toward 
their superior phases ! 
Pity Esmeralda, Djali, and the Satyr, but let them pass away. 
Why preserve the emblem of feminine degradation, when the 
type to be symbolized shall no longer exist ; when the young girl, 
liberated from moral and physical misery, shall have arisen glo- 
rious in the sphere of Harmony, where beauty is enthroned. One 
thing will remain to immortalize the memory of the goat ; coffee — 
an emblem of carnal love, whose discovery was well adapted to 
its character. Let the goat hasten to make itself an honorable 
position for the future, as a mould of transition. 
RAM — SHEEP. 
The fable of the wolf and the lamb — the literature of all peo- 
ple — have told too well the fate of the sheep and the lamb. 
The Redeemer of the world, the Good Shepherd, who gives 
His life for His sheep, has chospn for Himself the symbol of the 
lamb, which did not prevent Him from saying, that He had come 
to bring war into the world. Innocence, candor, and resignation 
in suffering are, may be, good for the people of Ireland, but not 
for that of France, and happily so for humanity. Come, come, it 
is high time that the lamb should cease to serve as victim, and 
that the proletary should issue from his purgatory, after six thou- 
sand years of misery and struggle. Beware then ye butchers 
and bad shepherds. 
The Cabiai, or Indian Pig, thus called because it is originally 
from America, does not appear to be worth the honor of a pro- 
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