Show A PLAYFUL GOAT ne he had learned to play nido and seek with ills III owner A mountain goat that I 1 once kept in confinement was about as cunning as the average street arab and had he lived to maturi maturity ty and kept on acquiring knowledge the chances anil are I 1 would have had to mave move out and give him the ranch TT IT m short ox cursione cur into info the woods and generally i kept c e p t right at my heels but on one occasion c a s i 0 he 1 lapsed a gg e ll 11 b behind e h in d a and n d al although tai 0 u gl i I 1 called b him i m s several e ve r a 1 t tunes s h he p paid d n no 0 heed I 1 finally walked back to see what he was vr as interested in and found him busy f feeding e edin g on 5 some ome moss that yew grew at the roots roote of a fir tree so I 1 left him anacon and continued my tramp but after I 1 had got away a short distance the thought oc currad to me to hide and see how he would act so I 1 slipped into a hollow tump stump close by the trail and awaited the result presently I 1 heard him corning coming bounding along th the trail and after he had passed I 1 stuck out my head t ti w watch atch him when he be got about twenty feet beyond me he stopped and commenced looking around and the comical expression on his face as he scanned every object that bore any resemblance to a human being caused me to burst out laughing when he turned an and d saw me then he commenced to r sulk and would not go any further so I 1 had to return home the next day he followed me as usual but in the midst of some thick brush and down timber I 1 got interested in a bird that I 1 was following up and forgot the goat and when vt hen I 1 came to look for him he be w as gone W walking aking back to where I 1 last saw him I 1 called but no billy came in sight theril then I 1 commenced a diligent search and presently I 1 caught sight of something white beneath a brush heap stooping down and looking in I 1 saw the little brute curled up in a heap and not a move i could I 1 get out of him reaching in I 1 baug caught ht him by the leg and pulled him out and gave him a good cuffing on both sides of his head but he be did not mind it a bit and seemed to enjoy the joke immensely capering about in his usual manner all the way home as if he would say you yon hid from me yesterday and I 1 hid from bouto you today to day and honors aro are oven even r dorest orest and stream |