"Has the Goat eaten well?"
"It has eaten as much as it can," answered his son.
But the Tailor would make sure for all that, and nothing would satisfy him but that he should go to the stable and ask the Goat for himself.
"How can I have eaten well?
I roamed all day along the hedge,
And nothing found to feed upon,"
answered the Goat.
"You bad rascal, to starve such a splendid animal!" cried the Tailor, running back to the house and catching up his yard measure. Then with cuffs and blows he chased his second son out of the house.
The next day it was the third boy's turn, and he found a spot where there was some lovely young grass; and when it was time to go home, he asked the Goat the same question, and obtained the same answer:
"'Tis said that enough is as good as a feast,
And I've had enough for a wise little beast."
So the lad led the Goat home, and he put it in the stable; and soon the Tailor came and asked if the Goat had had enough.
"Yes," replied the boy.