THE
TWO GOATS
AND THE
SICK MONKEY.
PORTLAND:
BAILEY & NOYES.
There are two or three kinds of Goats: One kind is called an I-bex, another a Chamois, and the other a Goat. This is an Ibex, and his horns are different from the tame goat who has a long beard. The Ibex runs over the highest rocks as easily as you can run on this floor, though his feet are but four little hoofs. So also can the Goat.—I heard of two goats who met on a narrow ridge on the side of a very high rock, as high as the Old-South steeple, and neither could turn out, nor go back, nor pass along, the path was so narrow. What were these two poor goats to do? If they fell, it would have killed them directly, and there
they stood crying and no one could help them, because no one could get near to them. People could see them only. I'll tell you what they did. One of them kneeled down and the other went so carefully over his back, that both got safely by.
This Dog is angry.