36. The Two Goats.

Perhaps you know that goats like to live on the rocks, and as they have

cloven feet (that is, feet that are split up the middle) they can walk

in places that would not be at all safe for your little feet.

One day two goats met each other on a narrow ledge of rock where there

was not room to pass. Below them was a steep precipice; if they fell

down there they would soon be dashed to pieces. How should they manage?

It was now that one of the goats did a polite, kind, graceful act.

She knelt down on the ledge so that the other goat might walk over her,

and when this was done, she rose up and went on her way, so both the

goats were safe and unhurt.

The goat teaches us a beautiful lesson on "giving in".

(Blackboard.)

The Two Goats,

Sometimes it is Noble to give Way.

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