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The latter is a thing you would not expect, for half of them look as if they could not live through the afternoon. They also told me that when you got close to them, they had a "'trong, 'trong 'niff; 'niff too much." I did not try, but I am quite willing to believe this statement. The other animals most in evidence in the streets are, first and foremost, goats and sheep.
Between hotel-keeper and carmen and boatmen and guides that describe to my honour the scenery, and young girls that insist on my honour taking a taste of the goats' milk, and a thousand other creatures that insist on boring me and being paid for it, I am really thankful every night when I get to my room and find all the pieces of me safe in their places.
"But wouldn't it be better if we had a good rest to-night?" "Where?" said Pen bluntly. "In some goat-keeper's cottage. We saw goats before we came here, and there must be people who keep them." "Perhaps so," said Pen; "but I have seen no cottages." "We ain't looked," said Punch. "No, and I don't think it would be very wise to look for them in the dark. Come, Punch, don't be a coward."
Chickens daubed with vermilion are driven away in the direction of the smoke, and are believed to carry the disease with them. If they fail, goats are tried, and last of all pigs.
As he sits at his table, breaking his bread and eating fish and oysters, he has his dog, parrot, and goats as companions and gives them a share of his meal. One day he sees from his look-out hill five boats come to the island and put to shore, and thirty savages jump on land and light a fire. Then they bring two prisoners from a boat. One they kill with a club.
There was nothing but squalid villages and ruins, goats and an occasional rare camel to be seen through the window not a tree anywhere, the German General Staff having attended to that job thoroughly.
Then Heidi told him of the mountain with the great snow-field, and how it had been on fire, and had turned rosy-red and then all of a sudden had grown quite pale again and all the color had disappeared. "I know that one too," he said, giving her its name. "So you enjoyed being out with the goats?"
He said good-night to Moni and whistled for his two companions, which meanwhile had joined Moni's grazing goats, but not without much pushing and other doubtful behavior between the two parties, for the goats from Fideris had never heard that they ought to be polite to visitors and the goats from Kublis did not know that they ought not to seek out the best plants or push the others away from them, when they were visiting.
First they sacrificed goats and sang: "Tank, we are giving goats Trickle out water! Tank, we are giving goats Flow, water!" But no water came.
Gibraltar, Thursday, November 25, 1852. I passed an uncomfortable night at the Venta de Villalon, lying upon a bag stuffed with equal quantities of wool and fleas. Starting before dawn, we followed a path which led into the mountains, where herdsmen and boys were taking out their sheep and goats to pasture; then it descended into the valley of a stream, bordered with rich bottom-lands.
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