A man on King Street gave a boy a goat the other day, and he tied a rope
around its neck to lead it home. The boy wanted to go through the gate,
but as the goat concluded to jump over the fence and pull the boy through
between the pickets, he let the goat have its own way. The boy got through
the fence in instalments, leaving his shirt collar and one pants leg on
the pickets, the goat dragged him out into the middle of the street, and
then there occurred a sanguinary encounter to see whether the boy or the
goat should boss the moving. At one time the spectators thought the goat
would take the boy home. The animal used the boy for a cultivator, and
they tore up the street like hands working on the road, till the goat
slipped the rope over his head, and then the boy gathered himself up by
the armful, and went and told his mother that he got his rope back anyway.
She combed him with a piece of barrel.