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Updated: June 12, 2025
You doddering old tarrapin, you only own one-third of it and that ain't yours, by rights. How much do you claim, I say?" "W'y I only claim one third," responded Dusty weakly, "but Whiskers, he claims that I'm entitled to a half " "A half!" raged Wunpost, starting back towards the saloon. "I'll show the old billygoat what he owns!"
He hunts in Leicestershire, where great men mount him; he is a prodigious favorite behind the scenes at the theatres; you may get glimpses of him at Richmond, with all sorts of pink bonnets; and he is the sworn friend of half the most famous roues about town, such as Old Methuselah, Lord Billygoat, Lord Tarquin, and the rest: a respectable race.
"`Who stole the eggs? says the billy-goat. "`Ax your ould grandmother! says the pig. "`Ax me ould WHICH mother? says the billy-goat. "`Oh, ax me And before he could complete the sintence, ram, blam, the ould billygoat butts him in the chist, and away goes the both of thim whirtlin' into the say below.
"What was that?" exclaimed Mr. Fulton, a full minute after. "I don't know," answered Tod. "I was waiting for it to come again. Sounded like only he couldn't be here." "Who couldn't?" "It sounded like a laugh and there's only one person, outside of a billygoat, who's got a gurgle like that." "Your wetting didn't tame you down any, did it? Who's the goat you had in mind?"
Then she seated herself in an out-of-the-way place and quietly waited. Suddenly there was a noise in the corridor and evidence of scuffling and struggling. Then the door flew open and in came the soldiers dragging a great blue billygoat, which was desperately striving to get free. "Villains!" howled the Boolooroo. "What does this mean?"
He slouched in sulkily and gazed at Old Whiskers, who was chewing on his tobacco like a ruminative billygoat and pretending to polish the bar.
"Why, you said to fetch the first living creature we met, and that was this billygoat," replied the Captain, panting hard as he held fast to one of the goat's horns. The Boolooroo stared a moment, and then he fell back to his throne, laughing boisterously. The idea of patching Cap'n Bill to a goat was vastly amusing to him, and the more he thought of it the more he roared with laughter.
"Excuse us, please," said the kind old gentleman rabbit, but what the Billygoat said I'll have to tell you in the next story, for there's no more room in this one. Seeing it's you," answered the Billygoat, who, you remember in the last story, had gotten very angry because Billy Bunny and Uncle Lucky had bumped into his motor boat with their whaleship.
When this was accomplished, the Boolooroo leaned over to try to discover why the frame rolled away seemingly of its own accord and he was the more puzzled because it had never done such a thing before. As he stood, bent nearly double, his back was toward the billygoat, which in their interest and excitement the soldiers were holding in a careless manner.
"I'm not cruel," he said, "and I don't approve of patching in general, so I'll willingly destroy the Great Knife. But before I do that, I want the privilege of patching the Snubnosed Princesses to each other mixing the six as much as possible and then I want to patch the former Boolooroo to the billygoat, which is the same punishment he was going to inflict upon Cap'n Bill."
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