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Then the fairy, beholding such ingratitude, cursed her, and wished that her face should become like that of a she-goat; and hardly had she uttered the words, when Renzolla's mouth stretched out, with a beard a span long on it, her jaws shrunk, her skin hardened, her cheeks grew hairy, and her plaited tresses turned to pointed horns.
The animal whose fleece serves them for clothing and many other purposes, is more like the Italian she-goat than any other creature, but is considerably larger, has no horns, and is free from the displeasing odour of our goats. Its fleece is not thick, but very long and fine; it varies in colour, but is never white, more generally of a slate-like or lavender hue.
Better; and having no victuals to eat, took my gun, but found myself very weak: however, I killed a she-goat, and with much difficulty got it home, and broiled some of it, and ate. I would fain have stewed it, and made some broth, but had no pot. June 27. The ague again so violent that I lay a-bed all day, and neither ate nor drank.
But being now in the eleventh year of my residence, and, as I have said, my ammunition growing low, I set myself to study some art to trap and snare the goats, to see whether I could not catch some of them alive; and particularly, I wanted a she-goat great with young.
He even wrapped the child up in a tanned calf skin, and then went out and caught a she-goat, which he flung to the ground, and tied by its extended legs to two poles of the hut, which were about six feet apart. He then placed the chilled and starving child where it could suck one of the teats.
He received the two women, with his fat stomach against the table, as he was finishing his coffee, and turning round he said: "What do you want?" The mother was spokeswoman. "This is our girl Adelaide, and I have come to ask you to take her as servant, as Monsieur le curé told us you wanted one." Maître Omont looked at the girl, and then he said roughly: "How old is the great she-goat?"
This unworthy safeguard at the hands of a person who passed his entire life in altering the fixed nature of justice, and who never went beyond his outer gate without an armed company of bowmen, inspired Yang Hu with so incautious a contempt, that without any hesitation he drew forth his brush and ink, and in a spirit of bitter signification added the words, "'Come, let us eat together, said the wolf to the she-goat."
'I did think of a speckled Hamburg hen, and a nice quiet she-goat, said Robina; 'but they are all dowdy, and would not suit Alda. 'There's something in the theory, said Edgar. 'That belladonna approves itself perfectly so delicate and stately, and yet so essentially unpoetical. 'That Mettie takes as a compliment, said Felix, 'only she would rather have been a potato, or a cabbage.
Upon which I contrived many ways to ensnare the goats, and see if I could catch them alive, particularly a she-goat with young. At last I had my desire, for making pitfalls and traps baited with barley and rice, I found one morning, in one of them, an old he-goat, and in the other three kids, one male, the other two females. So boisterous was the old one, that I could not bring him away.
That is, the goat the cap'n's kiddin' I mean the goat that's kiddin' the cap the skiddin' she-goat Aw, rats! ye know what I'm drivin' at. Me tongue so dry it don't work right." Wherewith Tim retreated in disorder to his room and began wrestling with his new hammock and the iron hooks. Swift darkness filled the rooms. The sun had slid down below the bulge of the fast-rolling world.
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