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-   :PG.Id: 43872
-   :PG.Title: Billy Whiskers' Travels
-   :PG.Released: 2013-10-02
-   :PG.Rights: Public Domain
-   :PG.Producer: Al Haines
-   :DC.Creator: \F. \G. Wheeler
-   :MARCREL.ill: Carll \B. Williams
-   :DC.Title: Billy Whiskers' Travels
-   :DC.Language: en
-   :DC.Created: 1907
-   :coverpage: images/img-cover.jpg
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-BILLY WHISTERS' TRAVELS
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-      BILLY WHISKERS'
-      TRAVELS
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-      BY
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-      \F. \G. WHEELER
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-      ILLUSTRATIONS BY
-      CARLL \B. WILLIAMS
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-      THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
-      CHICAGO — AKRON, OHIO — NEW YORK
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-      MADE IN U. S. A.
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-      Copyright 1907
-      by
-      The Saalfield Publishing Co.
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-.. class:: center large bold
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-   CONTENTS
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-   CHAPTER
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-I.  `Billy Runs Away from Home`_
-II.  `He Loses his Mother`_
-III.  `Billy Sees his Mother Again`_
-IV.  `The Burgomaster is Bumped`_
-V.  `The Wooden Goat`_
-VI.  `A Celebration with Fireworks`_
-VII.  `Billy Finds his Mother`_
-VIII.  `An Encounter with the Tiger`_
-IX.  `Alone in an Ocean Storm`_
-X.  `The Goats Become a Fiery Dragon`_
-XI.  `Billy Joins a Happy Family`_
-XII.  `Billy Earns his Name`_
-XIII.  `A Happy Reunion`_
-
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-   ILLUSTRATIONS
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-A Boat was lowered to rescue Billy. (missing from source book)
-
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-`"Grab him, Caspar! Hold him!"`_
-
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-`Billy saw him coming, and splashed around to the far side of
-the fountain.`_
-
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-`Billy felt his courage coming back.`_
-
-.. vspace:: 1
-
-`"Well, old fellow, if broken bones are all, we can fix those."`_
-
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-`"Shake hands," said Bobby.`_
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-.. _`BILLY RUNS AWAY FROM HOME`:
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-   CHAPTER I
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-   BILLY RUNS AWAY FROM HOME
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-
-The other kids of the big flock on the pretty Swiss farm
-thought that they were having a very nice time, but
-Billy did not like it very well.  He could run faster,
-jump higher and butt harder than any of the other kids
-of his age, and he wanted more room.  Nearly every day he stopped
-for a while beside the high fence and looked out through it at the
-green slopes that ran up to the mountains.  The leaves looked so
-much fresher and more tender there, and the sun so much brighter;
-besides, there were rocky places—he could see them—which would
-make such fine playgrounds and jumping places.  His wise old
-mother shook her head when he told her about these things.
-
-"You are too little yet, Billy," she always said.  "You are not
-yet strong enough to be out in the world alone, even if you could get
-away from here."
-
-"Just wait till I get big," Billy would say, shaking his head,
-and then he would scamper away to slyly nip the whiskers of some
-sober old goat, or to romp or play fight with one of the other
-youngsters.
-
-He was the most mischievous kid in the flock, and because of
-that his mother named him Billy Mischief.  Farmer Klausen, who
-owned him, was nearly as proud of him as Billy's own mother
-could be.
-
-"That's the smartest and strongest young goat I've got," he
-used to brag to his neighbor, fat Hans Zug, but for all that he kept
-a sharp eye on Billy and would not allow him to break away from
-the flock and escape, as he sometimes tried to do when they were
-being driven across the road from one pasture to another.
-
-One day, when Billy was almost a full-grown goat, his chance
-came at last.  Farmer Klausen was standing in the middle of the
-road to see that none got away, while his boys were driving the flock
-over to the lower meadows.  Billy, who came up with the others,
-looking as innocent as a goat can look, suddenly wheeled, and with
-a hard jump landed his broad head and horns square in the stomach
-of his master.  Farmer Klausen gave a yell, threw up both his hands
-and went heels over head into the dust, while Billy, scampering over
-him, ran as hard as he could for the hills.
-
-Coming down the road toward him was fat Hans Zug with a yoke
-across his shoulders from which hung two great pails of goat's milk
-which he was taking down to the chocolate factory in the valley.
-Slow-witted Hans, when he saw neighbor Klausen's goat getting
-away, never thought of setting down his pails, but spread out his
-arms and stood square in the middle of the road, waving his hands
-and shouting: "Shoo!  Shoo!"  It was a big mistake to think that
-he could scare this scamp goat by saying "Shoo!" or by keeping his
-fat body in the road, for Billy came straight on with his head down,
-and just as Hans thought that maybe he had better step to one side,
-Billy gave a mighty leap and doubled Hans up just like he had
-Farmer Klausen.
-
-"A thousand lightnings yet again!" yelled Hans as he went over.
-The two pails came down
-with a thud and a swish,
-and goat's milk ran all
-over the road and down
-the gulleys at the side.
-Hans Zug's dog, which
-had been sniffing at the roadside to see if he could find the trail of
-a rabbit, now jumped out and came at Billy.  With one jerk of his
-strong little neck the runaway goat picked the dog up on his horns
-and tossed him clear over his head, where he landed plump on top
-of fat Hans and knocked the breath out of him for a second time,
-just as Hans was getting up.  Then Billy, feeling fine from this
-nice bit of exercise, kicked up his heels and galloped on.
-
-.. _`The two pails came down with a thud and a swish`:
-
-.. figure:: images/img-003.jpg
-   :align: center
-   :alt: The two pails came down with a thud and a swish
-
-   The two pails came down with a thud and a swish
-
-Just as he reached the woods he turned around and looked back.
-Farmer Klausen was on his feet again but had no time to chase Billy,
-for he was cracking his long whip and running from one side of the
-road to the other to keep the rest of the goats from breaking away.
-Billy could hear his loud voice from where he stood.  Hans had
-also rolled to his feet and was holding his pudgy hands across his
-stomach, where he had been hit, while he looked dumbly at the
-rich, yellow milk which was in puddles everywhere.  Thick-headed
-Hans was just making up his mind that the milk had really been
-spilled when another goat dashed by him, as fast as its feet could
-patter.  As it drew nearer Billy saw with joy that it was his mother,
-and he waited for her.  When she came close Billy called to her:
-
-"Hurry up!  We are never going back any more."
-
-He kicked up his heels again in pure delight and was about to
-plunge into the woods when his mother called on him to wait, and
-he did so, though he did not like to do it, for the last of the flock
-was now safely in the other pasture, the gate was being closed on
-them and Billy knew that in a moment more Farmer Klausen and
-his boys and neighbor Hans would be coming after them.
-
-When Billy's mother came up even with him she was panting
-so hard that she could not speak, but she did not stop.  She kept
-right on running, and he followed, curious to see what she meant to
-do.  As soon as they were out of sight of the men, she turned from
-the road into the woods, and by-and-by reached a little hollow which
-was all overgrown with bushes.  Into this she raced, and Billy, now
-seeing what she was up to, scampered lightly along behind, thinking
-it to be great fun.  The hollow grew deeper and wider and shadier
-as they went on, and at last she turned and scrambled up the dim,
-pebbly bank, where she plunged into a dry little cave.  Here she
-lay down upon the ground to get her breath, while Billy climbed in
-beside her and listened.  Soon he could hear the heavy pat, pat, of
-the feet of Farmer Klausen and his boys on the road, which was now
-high above them.
-
-"They'll never find us here," he said.
-
-"Don't 'baah' so loud or they will hear us," panted his mother.
-"My!  I'm getting too fat to run any more, but if you were bound to
-go out in the world, I was bound to come with you.  You're not old
-enough even yet to be trusted alone.  But you are right about one
-thing; unless they catch us, we're never going back."
-
-Suddenly they both became very still.  The noise of the footsteps
-had died away, but there was a slow rustling of the leaves in
-the hollow.  Something was coming toward them!
-
-Nearer and nearer to where Billy and his mother lay hidden
-came the noise, and soon they saw a dim, dark-gray shape among the
-underbrush turn straight up toward them.  It was a large wild boar,
-one of the fiercest animals that rove the forests of Europe.  It had
-a great, shaggy head and cruel-looking curved tusks nearly a foot
-long.  The two goats were in one of his hiding-places, and they
-knew that he would not stop to say "Beg your pardon" when he came
-up; whatever he had to say would be said with those sharp tusks.
-The space was too narrow for them to run out past him.  Billy's
-mother was scared, but not Billy.
-
-"The only thing for us to do is to fight," said he, and, jumping
-to his feet, he stood at the mouth of the little cave and gave a loud
-"baah!" which was to warn the boar that it had better go about its
-business.
-
-The boar stopped and looked up at Billy with little wicked eyes,
-then he gave a loud snort, and, lowering his head, started to run
-straight up the hill toward them.  Billy waited until the boar was
-close upon him, then he gave a sudden jump and landed square upon
-the fierce animal's back.  The beast squealed and whirled around to
-rip Billy with his tusks, but before he could do so Billy himself had
-whirled and had hooked the big animal in the side.  There was
-another squeal and Billy jumped out of the way.  The animal turned
-and dashed after him, but in turning, his side was for an instant
-toward the mouth of the cave.  It was just that instant for which
-Billy's mother was watching, and with all her might she jumped,
-butting him in the side with such force that he went rolling over
-and over, squealing and grunting, into the hollow.  Billy was for
-jumping down after him but his mother knew better than that.
-She knew that it would be only an accident if they could whip this
-wicked animal, as the boar was so much the stronger, and that it
-was better to run than fight.
-
-"Come quickly!" she cried, springing up the hill.
-
-Billy stood for a moment, hardly knowing whether to follow
-her or not, but just then the boar scrambled to his feet and started
-after them, snorting and with fire-red eyes.
-
-"Billy!  Billy!" screamed his mother.  "Do as I tell you!"
-
-Even then, Billy, who never had known what it was to be afraid,
-wanted to stay and fight it out, but the sight of his mother
-scampering up the hill decided him.  He was more afraid that he might
-lose her than he was that he could not whip the boar, so he took
-after her.  The boar was also a good runner, but he was not nearly
-so nimble a climber as the goats and they soon out-distanced him,
-gaining the road, where they ran on as fast as they could go.
-
-The road soon came to a narrow place where the trees stopped
-and the rocks rose straight up on either side.  They were half way
-through this narrow stretch when Billy's mother stopped.
-
-"Goodness!" she exclaimed.  "I forgot about Farmer Klausen
-and his boys.  They will be coming back past this way pretty soon,
-and if they meet us in here there will be trouble.  We can't turn
-back on account of the boar and they will surely catch us."
-
-"Well, then," said Billy, once more showing his bravery, "if
-we can't go back on account of the boar, we might just as well go on
-ahead and meet whatever comes, as to stand here wasting time.
-Maybe if we hurry we can get out before they get to us."
-
-"I'm proud of you, Billy," said his mother.
-
-They started to run on again, but had no more than done so
-when, sure enough, they saw a man coming toward them.  It was
-fat Hans Zug, and the minute they saw who it was Billy laughed.
-
-"Just watch me roll him over," he said, and started, as hard as
-he could go, toward the big round farmer.
-
-When Hans saw Billy coming toward him this time he did not
-wave his arms and cry, "Shoo!"  In place of that he put his hands
-on his stomach and turned around to run away from this little, white
-cannon-ball of a goat.  It was comical to see the fat fellow waddling
-along, holding his hands in front of him, but he was making such
-slow progress that Billy felt sorry for him and thought that he ought
-to help him a little.  It only took a few jumps to catch up with Hans
-and then—biff!—he struck him from behind so hard that Hans
-almost bounced when he hit the ground.
-
-"A thousand lightnings, yet again!" yelled poor Hans.
-
-He was just grunting his way to his hands and feet again when
-Billy's mother came along behind and—whack!—she gave him
-another tumble.  This time he did not stop to look in either direction,
-but rolled over to the side of the road and, getting to his feet, tried
-to claw his way up the steep rocks, feeling almost sure that a whole
-regiment of goats of all colors and sizes was after him.
-
-"Ten thousand, a hundred thousand lightnings!" wailed Hans.
-Billy, nearly laughing
-himself sick,
-waited for his
-mother, and
-when she came
-up they both
-pranced on.  They had nearly reached the end of the narrow pass
-when they saw coming toward them Farmer Klausen and his two
-boys.  The boys were running on ahead, quite a little distance in
-front of their father, and Billy said quickly:
-
-"You take Chris and I will take Jacob!"
-
-So when they came up to the boys they just dived between their
-legs.  Billy upset Jacob easily enough, but Chris was lighter, and
-when the fatter goat tried to escape between his legs he simply fell
-over on top of her.  Without stopping to think what he was doing, he
-grabbed his arms about her middle and hung tight, while she raced
-on for dear life.  By this time they were up to the farmer.  Billy
-easily dodged him, but it was not so easy for his mother.  With
-Chris hanging on her back, Farmer Klausen was able to grab her
-by the horns and hold her tight.
-
-.. _`He grabbed his arms about her middle and hung tight.`:
-
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-   :align: center
-   :alt: He grabbed his arms about her middle and hung tight.
-
-   He grabbed his arms about her middle and hung tight.
-
-"Billy, Billy!  Help!" squealed his mother, and Billy whirled
-around to come back at once.  He flew through the air as if he had
-been shot out of a gun, and when he landed against the stooping
-Farmer Klausen, that surprised man turned a somersault clear over
-Chris and the old goat, then Billy's mother easily shook Chris loose
-and away they went again.
-
-As soon as they got through the narrow pass they turned once
-more into the woods, which here sloped upward.  They had now
-passed the last of the farms, and beyond them lay nothing but wooded
-hills and the mountains.  Up and up they scrambled until at last,
-near nightfall, they came to a little, grass-grown tableland, watered
-by a tiny stream that tumbled down from the mountains, and here,
-after taking a long drink, they rested.  After a while they made a
-good meal from the tender young grass that grew at the side of the
-stream, and lay down again.  Soon they were fast asleep, side by
-side.
-
-It was nearly midnight and the moon was shining brightly
-overhead, when they were both awakened by a terrific scream, and at
-the same moment a soft, heavy body landed upon Billy's back!
-Sharp claws struck his hide and sharp teeth sank into the back of his
-neck!
-
-
-
-.. _`"GRAB HIM, CASPAR!  HOLD HIM!"`:
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-.. figure:: images/img-012.jpg
-   :align: center
-   :alt: "GRAB HIM, CASPAR!  HOLD HIM!"
-
-   "GRAB HIM, CASPAR!  HOLD HIM!"
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-.. _`HE LOSES HIS MOTHER`:
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-   CHAPTER II
-
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-   HE LOSES HIS MOTHER
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-It was a mountain lynx that had sprung upon Billy from
-the rocks above.  This lynx often came down to the
-highest of the goat farms, and had many times annoyed
-fat Hans Zug and Farmer Klausen by stealing nice, fat
-young kids for his supper.  This time, however, he had met his
-match, for Billy's mother no sooner saw the animal light upon her
-offspring than she scrambled to her feet, and, with a short, quick
-jump, plunged her sharp horns into his side.  The lynx screamed,
-and loosing his grip on Billy, turned to fight with the mother goat.
-The moment his weight was lifted, Billy, quick as a flash, ripped
-at the underside of the beast with his sharp horns.  That made the
-animal snarl and loosen his hold upon Billy's mother, and between
-them they soon, in this way, gave the lynx more than he had bargained
-for, so that presently he fled howling up the steep rocks with
-the two goats chasing him as far as they thought it safe.  Then they
-came back to their grassy spot, and bathed their hurt places in the
-cool, running water.
-
-"Now, Billy, you see what the world is like," said his mother.
-"Don't you wish that we were safely back in Farmer Klausen's pasture?"
-
-Billy dipped his scratched hind leg in the water and held it there
-while he shook his head.
-
-"No," he said, "this is better.  Only I'm glad that I didn't get a
-chance to run away until I was so big and strong."
-
-His mother sighed, but looked at him proudly.
-
-"You are a brave young goat," she said, "and it would be a
-shame to keep you shut up in a pen."
-
-In the morning they were a little stiff from their hurts, but Billy
-was still eager to travel and see the world, so they went on into the
-mountains.  About noon they followed a little ravine down to a
-plateau where there was a whole herd of chamois.  These graceful
-animals are about the size of a goat, but they are not so heavily built
-and are much swifter.  At first the chamois did not want to let the
-goats join them, but old Fleetfoot, the leader of the herd, said that
-they might stay if they were not quarrelsome, but that they would
-have to look out for themselves if hunters came that way.
-
-This little plateau was a beautiful place, all carpeted with grass
-and backed up by towering rocks.  At one end was a cliff looking out
-over a valley, at the further end of which was a little village.  Billy,
-in his eagerness to see the world, ran at once to the edge of the cliff.
-
-"You reckless Billy!" cried his mother, running after him.
-"Don't go so close to that
-cliff or you will surely
-fall over and break
-your neck!"
-
-"I'm not
-afraid," boasted
-Billy, and actually
-stood on his hind legs at the very edge.
-
-.. _`Stood on his hind legs at the very edge.`:
-
-.. figure:: images/img-015.jpg
-   :align: right
-   :alt: Stood on his hind legs at the very edge.
-
-   Stood on his hind legs at the very edge.
-
-Just then a few loose stones came rolling
-down the ravine, and like a flash the
-entire herd of chamois were gone, leaping
-across a broad chasm to a little ledge upon the
-other side, where there was a second path that
-led among the rocks.
-
-"Oh, what shall we do?" cried Billy's
-mother.  "Here come two hunters with guns, and
-we can't jump where they did.  Why, it's twelve
-feet across there!"  She was frightened half to
-death but not for herself, for she threw herself
-squarely between Billy and the hunters.
-
-The hunters were ignorant fellows, and as soon
-as they caught sight of the two goats they thought that
-these also were chamois, and one of them, lifting his
-gun, shot at them, grazing the head of the mother goat.  She toppled
-over against Billy, and that knocked him over the cliff.  If it had
-not been for a small tree which grew out of the cliff about half
-way down, Billy would have been dashed to death, but the tree
-broke his fall and so he only lay in the valley stunned, while the
-hunters picked up his mother and in great glee carried her away,
-thinking they had shot a chamois.
-
-When they got back to their guide he told them their mistake,
-and saw, too, that the goat was only stunned; so they gave it to him
-and he sold it next day to a man who was buying some extra goats
-for Hans Zug, to stock a goat farm in America.
-
-In the meantime poor Billy lay almost dead at the base of the
-cliff, where a man found him about an hour later.
-
-"You poor goat!" said the man, looking up at the cliff.  "Did
-you fall down from that dizzy height?" and he put his hand on
-Billy's sleek coat.  "At least you are not dead," he went on, feeling
-Billy's heart beat.  "I'll get you some water."
-
-He took off his little round hat and ran back to where a tiny
-waterfall came splashing and tumbling down the cliff, and, filling
-his hat full of water, brought it and emptied it on the goat's head.
-The cool shower revived Billy so that he raised his head a little, and
-by the time the man got back with the second hatful of water he was
-able to drink a little.  This revived him still more, and presently
-he scrambled weakly to his feet.  He stumbled and swayed and
-nearly fell down, but by spreading his feet out he managed to stand
-up, and by-and-by he took a few tottering steps.  With each step
-he grew stronger, and after another good drink he was able to
-follow this kind man across the valley to the little village.
-
-Billy was glad enough to lie down and take a nap as soon as he
-got to the man's house, and he did not wake up until late at night.
-After his good sleep he felt as strong as ever and thought he would
-get something to eat, then see if he could not find his mother.  He
-found that he was tied to a fence not far from a little whitewashed
-building, under which ran a stream of water, but it did not take long
-for him to jerk himself loose.  Going toward the little white
-building, he smelled something that reminded him of milk.  He tried to
-get in at the door.  It was fastened with a wooden button but Billy
-did not care for that.  He went back a little piece to get a run, and
-bumped head first into the door, which flew open at once.
-
-"Milk!" said Billy, sniffing around in delight.  "Nice sweet
-milk!  I'm sure that kind man would want me to have some."
-
-There was a little board walk down the center of this spring-house,
-and on each side of this were a number of crocks setting in the
-water, each one of them covered with a plate and containing milk.
-A stone was laid on top of each plate to weight the crock down in
-the water, and in trying to nose off one of these plates Billy reached
-over too far and fell.  He landed right among the crocks, which,
-of course, bumped into each other, breaking and overturning and
-spilling the milk, and making a great clatter.  At the noise, two
-dogs came running down and dashed into the spring-house, where,
-seeing something floundering around in the water, they promptly
-dived in after it and Billy found himself very busy.  The noise the
-dogs made aroused the man and his wife, and they, too, came down;
-the noise they made aroused the neighbors on both sides, who came
-running over to see what was the matter; a young man, who was
-coming home late from calling on a girl, passed by that way and
-saw the people from both sides running to this house and thought
-there must be a fire, so he ran to the town hall, where the rope of
-the fire bell hung outside, and began ringing it as loud as he could,
-which aroused everybody in the village.  Hearing the commotion
-many got out of bed and came out on the streets to learn where the
-fire was.
-
-All this time Billy, the cause of the hubbub, was battling with
-the dogs among the milk crocks in the spring-house, and using his
-horns right and left as hard as he could, until finally he was able to
-jump out between them and on to the board walk.  Out of the door
-he dashed, upsetting the man and his wife, butting into the neighbors
-and, all dripping with white milk, ran like the ghost of a goat
-through the village street, making women and girls scream,
-scattering people right and left and being chased by yelping dogs and
-halloing men and boys.
-
-Billy easily outran his pursuers, but he never stopped until he
-was far out in the country, where he crept under a stone bridge to
-rest from his long run.  As soon as he had got his breath, he broke
-into a near-by field and made a splendid supper from some nice
-young lettuce heads, then he trotted contentedly back under his
-bridge and went to sleep.  In the morning, bright and early, he
-went back into the market garden and made a fine breakfast from
-beet and carrot tops, all sparkling with cool dew.  He enjoyed this
-garden very much and would like to have stayed there until all the
-nice vegetables were eaten up, but he remembered how Mr. Klausen
-had whipped him for breaking into his turnip patch one time, and
-made up his mind that it would not be safe to linger in this part of
-the country much longer, so he jumped the fence and started again
-on his travels.
-
-A little dog was trotting down the road, and as soon as he saw
-Billy he began to bark.  To ordinary persons the barking would
-have sounded merely like a lot of bow-wows, but in the animal
-language it said:
-
-"Where did *you* come from, you big white tramp?  You go
-right on away from here or I'll call the police."
-
-Billy wasn't going to take that sort of talk from any dog, big or
-little, so he gave one "baah!" lowered his head, and started for that
-dog.  The dog suddenly found out that he had very important
-business back home, and he started up the road as hard as he could
-go, with Billy close after him.  There never was a dog that ran
-so hard and so earnestly as that one, and all the breath that he could
-spare from running he used in howling, to let the folks at home
-know that he was coming.  All at once he was very anxious indeed
-to get home in time for breakfast, and Billy was just as anxious to
-toss him over a fence before he got there.  Up one hill and down
-another went the two, lickaty-split, first a little white streak bent
-low in the dust, and then a bigger white streak coming along close
-behind in a whirling cloud.  Pretty soon they came in sight of a big
-square farmhouse with a wide-spreading roof, and then the little
-dog, his tongue hanging away out, gave an extra wild howl and ran
-faster than ever.  When they got to the house the dog turned in at
-the open gate with Billy right at his heels.  He tore up the path
-and around to the kitchen door, up the steps and into the kitchen,
-pell-mell, where he dived under the table at which the Oberbipp
-family was having breakfast.
-
-Billy did not know where he was going and did not very much
-care.  All he knew was that he was chasing that dog and meant
-to catch him, so without looking, he followed, too, up the steps
-and under the table.  Such shrieking and howling never was heard.
-Herr Oberbipp jumped up so quickly that he upset his chair, and
-in trying to catch the chair he upset himself, turning a back
-somersault on the floor and landing in a tub of soapsuds in which the
-clothes were soaking to be washed.  Frau Oberbipp grabbed a loaf
-of bread in one hand and a sausage in the other, and never left off
-screaming until she was out of breath.  Greta Oberbipp sprang up
-on her chair and shook her skirts as hard as she could, while she
-helped her mamma scream.  Baby Oberbipp jumped up on the
-table at first, but the snarls and howls and "baahs" from underneath
-excited his curiosity so much that he soon jumped down to the floor
-and looked under the table.  Then he began to dance on one foot
-and yell.
-
-"Hang on, you Flohbeis!" he cried, for the dog, now full of
-courage because he was under his own table, had grabbed Billy by
-the nose.  Shake his head as hard as he might, Billy could not
-loosen Flohbeis, or Fleabite, as his name would be called in English,
-so he reared straight up, and the table began to dance across the
-room toward the father of the family, while Frau Oberbipp and
-Greta screamed louder than ever.  Herr Oberbipp was just getting
-out of the tub when the table got over to him, and he made a grab
-at it when Billy gave an extra strong jump.  The table overturned,
-and all the breakfast things, with a mighty crash of dishes, slid on
-Herr Oberbipp and knocked him back in the suds again.  By this
-time Billy had unfastened the grip of Fleabite from his nose and
-had butted that yelping dog into the bottom of the tall clock case;
-then Billy started for the door, but Herr Oberbipp was already
-yelling to Caspar not to let him out.
-
-"Grab him, Caspar!  Hold him!" yelled the man.  "He is a
-nice young goat.  He spoils our breakfast and we make a dinner
-of him."
-
-When Billy heard that, he was more anxious than ever to
-get out, but Caspar had slammed the door shut, and Billy, seeing
-it closed, tried to butt it down.  The door was too strong and Billy
-grew desperate.  Caspar ran after him and Billy suddenly turned,
-running under Caspar's legs and toppling him over; then he made
-for the window, meaning to go through it, sash and all.  But Caspar
-had already jumped up, and, as the goat went through a pane of
-glass, Caspar grabbed him by the hind legs and held him, while
-Billy, fairly caught and pinched in between the window bars, could
-only struggle with his fore feet.
-
-Herr Oberbipp in the meantime got himself out of the tub
-of water, took the butter out of his hair and the mush out of his
-shirt front, untangled himself from the table-cloth, wiped the
-coffee from his face and ran outside, where he grabbed Billy by the
-horns and pulled him on through the window.  Herr Oberbipp was
-a big, strong man, and, holding Billy by the horns, he carried him
-at arm's length down to the barn, letting him kick and struggle
-all he wanted to, and there he tied the goat in a stall with a good
-stout wire, after which he went back to the house and washed himself.
-Frau Oberbipp and Greta were still screaming.
-
-The glass had given Billy two or three little cuts, but they did
-not amount to much and he had already licked them clean when
-Caspar came out with some water and a plate of cold potatoes which
-Billy was very glad to get.  While the goat was eating, Caspar
-examined the cut places, and, running into the house, brought out
-something which he put on the cuts.  It smarted at first, and Billy
-tried to butt Caspar for putting it on, but by-and-by he could feel
-that the smarts were being soothed and that the cuts were healing by
-reason of the stuff that the boy had put on, so he began to see that
-Caspar was not such a bad sort after all.  He had something to
-worry about, however, when, after breakfast, the farmer came out
-and looked the goat over.
-
-"Roast kid is a very fine dish," said the farmer.  "I don't know
-to whom this goat belongs, but whosever it is he owes us a meal, so
-we're going to roast him."
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-Nobody, not even a goat, likes to think of being roasted
-for dinner, and so, the minute he heard that, Billy gave
-an extra hard tug at the wire, but it only cut his neck
-and choked him and would not break.  So he gave it
-up and "baahed" pitifully while he looked to Caspar for help.
-
-"Indeed you will not roast this goat," said sturdy Caspar.
-"He's my goat; he chased my dog and I'm going to keep him."
-
-Caspar looked up at his father and his father looked down at
-Caspar.  Billy looked up at both of them.  Little Caspar and big
-Caspar stood exactly alike, both of them with their fists doubled on
-their hips and both of them with square jaws and firm lips, and it was
-big Caspar, who, proud to see his boy looking so much like himself,
-finally gave in.  He laughed and said:
-
-"All right, he's your goat, but you have got to take the
-whippings for all the damage he does."
-
-"Very well," said Caspar, "I'll do it," and his father walked
-away.
-
-Billy was so pleased with this that he made up his mind to be
-very nice to the boy, and when Caspar stooped down to take the
-empty plate away, Billy ran his nose affectionately into young
-Oberbipp's hand.  Right after breakfast Caspar took off the wire from
-Billy's neck, holding a switch in his hand to whip the goat over
-the nose in case he tried to butt or run away.  But Billy did neither
-of these things.  He followed his new master out in the
-yard, and there he was backed up between the shafts of
-a little wagon that had been made for
-Fleabite.  The dog capered and barked and
-made a run or two at Billy, but
-the goat only shook his horns at
-him and Fleabite ran under the barn.  The dog was jealous.  He
-did not like the wagon, but, rather than have the goat hitched up to
-it, he wanted to haul it himself.
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-
-"It's no use, Fleabite," said Caspar, "you might as well make
-friends with him.  Anyhow, you're not big enough to haul this
-wagon, and you always lay down in the harness.  You can come
-along behind, though.  I'm going to drive in to Kasedorf and show
-my goat to cousin Fritz."
-
-At first Billy was afraid that Kasedorf might be the village
-where he had torn up the spring-house, and he had very good reasons
-for not wanting to go back there, but when they clattered out of the
-gate Caspar turned his head in the other direction, and he was very
-glad of this.  He was so pleased with his new master that he went
-along at a splendid gait, pulling Caspar nicely up one hill after
-another.  Fleabite ran along, sometimes behind, sometimes ahead, and
-sometimes slipping up at the side and snapping at Billy's nose; but
-Billy had only to shake his horns in the dog's direction and Fleabite
-would run about a mile before he would take it into his foolish
-head to try that trick again.
-
-Pretty soon they went whizzing down a little hill and into a
-far prettier village than the first one.  Just as they turned into the
-main street, along came a flock of goats driven by two men and half
-a dozen boys, and who should Billy see in that flock but his own
-mother!  Of course he called loudly to her.  She heard him, and
-though she was in the center of the flock, quickly made her way to
-the edge, where she kissed him.  She had no time to tell him where
-she was going, nor he to tell her all that had happened to him since
-he had fallen from the cliff, but it was a joy for each of them to
-know that the other was still alive and in good health.
-
-Before they could speak further, a sharp whip cracked over
-them and the lash landed on Billy's nose.  He jumped back with the
-pain and again the whip cracked.  This time Billy's mother got the
-sting of it.  Billy looked around, and there, handling the whip,
-was fat Hans Zug!  Billy, mad as a hornet, whirled and was going
-to make for Hans, when Caspar, who had jumped out of the cart,
-hit him a sharp crack across the nose with his fist, and it pained
-Billy so much that the tears came to his eyes and he could not see.
-Before he could make another start for Hans or run after his mother,
-Hans had passed by, and Caspar's uncle Heinrich, who had come up
-in the meantime, had Billy by the horns and was holding him.
-Billy struggled as hard as he could to get away.  He wanted to butt
-Hans Zug for whipping his mother and himself, and he wanted to
-go with his mother if he could, so he was a very sulky goat.
-
-Even when Caspar took him to his uncle's house and gave him
-some nice, tender vegetables and potato parings to eat, he was very
-sulky as he stood there munching his dinner, so that when Fleabite
-came up and stole some of his potato parings he butted that poor
-dog plump into a barbed wire fence.  You must not suppose that
-Fleabite liked potato parings.  He would not eat them at home,
-but he was such a jealous dog that he wanted to eat up Billy's
-dinner, no matter what it was.  After dinner Caspar rubbed Billy's
-sleek coat until it was all clean and glossy, then he let Fritz have a
-ride in the cart.  Fritz drove proudly up into the main street, and
-there, standing at the corner, talking to another man, was Hans
-Zug!
-
-"Yes," Hans was saying in English to the other man, "I go
-me also by America next week.  I got such a brother there what is
-making more as a tousand dollars a year mit such a goat farm, and I
-take me my goats over.  I got a contract mit another Switzer what
-owns the land.  Yess!"
-
-Billy did not wait for any more, but raised up on his hind feet.
-Fritz tried his best to hold him back, but he might as well have
-tried to hold the wind, and Billy, feeling the tug at his reins, gave
-a jump that toppled Fritz over backwards out of the cart.  He gave
-one more jump and landed with all his might and main against poor,
-round Hans, and as his enemy went down Billy jumped on him and
-ran up one side of him and down the other side.  Poor Hans got
-up and clasped both pudgy hands on his stomach.
-
-"A thousand lightnings yet again!" he exclaimed as he looked
-sorrowfully at his print in the dust.  Hans had been butted that
-time for Billy's mother; now Billy whirled and came back to give
-Hans one for himself, but this time Hans was too quick for him
-and dodged behind a tree, letting Billy butt the tree so hard that it
-stunned him, and before the fiery tempered goat could make up
-his mind what had happened to him, Caspar came running up and
-grabbed him by the horns.  Billy could have jerked away from
-Caspar, but he felt that the boy was now the best friend he had, and
-he did not want to hurt him, so he let Caspar pat him on his sleek
-sides and climb into the cart behind him.
-
-"You'll have to walk, Fritz," said Caspar loftily.  "It takes a
-good strong boy to manage this goat."
-
-Billy laughed at this, but when Caspar "clicked" for him to
-"get up," he trotted right along without making any fuss about it.
-
-At the next corner a carriage turned into the main street, and
-in it, on the seat back of the driver, were a man and a boy, the latter
-being of about Caspar's age.
-
-"Oh, papa, do look at that beautiful goat!" exclaimed the boy.
-"Please buy him for me, won't you?"
-
-Mr. Brown shook his head.
-
-"I don't mind you having a goat, Frank," he said, "but I can
-get you just as good a one when we get back to America.  There is
-no use in carrying a goat clear across the ocean with us when there
-are so many at home."
-
-"All right," said the boy, obediently, and the carriage drove on.
-
-Poor Billy!  His heart sank.  He had just heard from Hans
-that his mother was going to America, and he did hope that this fine
-looking man would buy him and take him there, too, so that he
-would have more chance to find his mother; but now his chance was
-gone.  Was it though?  He was not a goat to give up easily, and
-he made up his mind to try once more.
-
-Billy stopped dead still to think it over.  He simply could not
-bear to let this man get away without another trial, so suddenly he
-whirled, nearly upsetting the cart, and ran after the strangers.  He
-soon caught up with them, and then, slowing down, he trotted along
-at the side of the carriage, showing off his beauty as much as he
-could.
-
-"Oh, papa, there is that beautiful goat again," said the boy.
-"How I do wish I could have him!  Of course you can buy me one
-in America, as you have promised to do, but they say that there are
-no goats in the world so fine as the Swiss goats, and I am sure that
-I never saw any so pretty as this one."
-
-The man smiled indulgently at his son and stopped the carriage.
-
-"How much will you take for your goat, my boy?" he asked.
-
-"I don't want to sell him," replied Caspar.  "He's my goat
-and I like him."
-
-Just then Billy tossed his fine head and pranced, daintily
-lifting his feet.
-
-"See how graceful he is!" exclaimed the boy.  "Do buy him, papa!"
-
-"I'll give you ten dollars for him," said the gentleman, pulling
-out his pocketbook.
-
-Caspar caught his breath.  He knew the value of an American
-dollar, and ten dollars was equal to more than forty German marks.
-It was a great lot of money, too much for a poor boy to refuse.
-Caspar drew a long sigh and began to slowly unhitch his goat.  The
-driver of the carriage threw him a strap, and with this he tied Billy
-to the rear axle of the carriage.
-
-Fleabite, as soon as Billy was safely tied, began to caper with
-joy and to snap at Billy's heels, but Caspar, when the man had paid
-him his money, grabbed Fleabite and hitched him to the cart.  Then
-he ran up and patted Billy affectionately on the flanks, and the
-carriage drove away, with Billy following gladly behind in the dust.
-
-Down the village street the carriage rolled until it came to a
-quaint little Swiss inn, where it turned through a wide gateway that
-led into a brick-paved courtyard.  Here Billy was unfastened from
-the carriage by a servant and led back of the inn, where he was tied
-by the strap to a post, while Mr. Brown and his son Frank went to
-their mid-day meal.  Billy didn't like to be tied; he was not used
-to it, so he began to chew his strap in two.  It was very tough leather
-but Billy's teeth were very sharp and strong, and he had it about half
-gnawed through when a little, lean waiter came from the kitchen
-across the courtyard, carrying, high up over his head, a great big
-tray piled with dishes of food.  The waiter saw Billy gnawing
-his strap in two and thought that he ought to keep him from it.
-
-"Stop that, you hammer-headed goat!" he cried and gave Billy
-a kick.
-
-Billy was not going to stand anything like that, so he gave a
-mighty jump and the strap parted where he had been gnawing upon
-it.  As soon as the lean waiter saw this he started to run, but, with
-the heavy tray he was carrying, he could not run very fast and he
-looked most comical with his apron flopping out behind him and his
-legs going almost straight up and down in his effort to run and to
-balance the tray at the same time.
-
-When Billy pulled the strap in two, the jerk of it sent him head
-over heels and by the time he had scrambled to his feet again the
-waiter was half way to the back door of the inn.  The fat cook, who
-was looking out of the door of the summer kitchen, saw Billy start for
-the waiter and he started after the goat, but he got there too late,
-for the goat caught up with the lean waiter in about three leaps and
-with a loud "baah!" sent him sprawling.  The big tray of dishes
-came down with a crash and a clatter, and meats, vegetables, gravies
-and relishes, together with broken dishes, were scattered all over
-the fellow who had kicked Billy, all over the clean scrubbed bricks,
-spattered up against the walls and into the long rows of geraniums
-that grew in a wooden trough at the end of the house.
-
-Billy turned and was about to trot back when he saw the fat cook
-coming just behind him, so he ran right on across the little waiter,
-through the mess and to the back door.  Crossing the winter kitchen
-he found a big, rosy-cheeked girl standing in his way and made a
-dive at her.  With a scream she jumped and Billy's horns caught
-in her bright, red-checked apron, which jerked loose.  With this
-streaming along his back, he dashed on into a long hall, and there at
-the far door whom did he see, just starting into the dining-room, but
-his old enemy, fat Hans Zug, who had that morning whipped Billy's
-mother and himself.  Billy stood up on his hind feet for a second
-and shook his head at Hans, and then he started for him.  Hans saw
-him coming.
-
-"Thunder weather!" he cried, and ran on through the door.
-
-He tried to shut the door behind him but he was not in time,
-for Billy butted against it and threw it open right out of Hans Zug's
-hand.  The long room into which Hans had hurried was the
-dining-room, and here were seated, around a long table, a number of
-ladies and gentlemen, among them Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their
-son Frank, waiting for the dinner that now lay scattered around the
-courtyard.  Everybody looked up, startled, when Hans came bursting
-through the door closely followed by an angry goat with a
-red-checked apron streaming from his horns.  A great many of the
-men jumped up and scraped their chairs back, adding to the
-confusion, and a great many of the ladies screamed.  Hans, not
-knowing what to do, started to run around and around the table with
-Billy close behind him and the fat cook close after Billy.  Billy
-would easily have caught Hans except that every once in a while
-Hans would upset a chair in the goat's road and Billy would have to
-jump over the chair.  Sometimes the fat cook would almost catch
-Billy and finally did succeed in catching the apron.  When it came
-loose in his hand he did not know what to do with it.  He started
-to throw it down, he started to stuff it in his pocket, he started to mop
-his perspiring face with it, and at last he threw it around his neck
-and tied the strings in front to get rid of it, then once more he chased
-after Billy, with the red apron flopping out behind him.
-
-At last he grabbed Billy by the tail just as he was going to jump
-over the chair, and held on tightly, but Billy's jump had been too
-strong for him and the fat cook stumbled head over heels.  Jumping
-up the angry cook ran until he again caught the goat, and this time
-he fell on top of Billy and then both rolled over and over on the
-floor.
-
-"Ugh!" grunted the fat cook.  "Beast animal!"
-
-Billy jumped up in such a hurry that he simply danced on the
-fat cook's stomach.  While Billy was doing this, Hans had stopped
-for a minute to mop his face and to look wildly around for some
-way to escape.  Around and around, around and around the two
-raced, poor Hans puffing and blowing and his face getting redder
-and redder every minute with the chase.
-
-Some men had been calsomining the wooden ceiling of the
-dining-room, but they had quit during meal time.  At one end of the
-room stood two step-ladders with some long boards resting across
-them, and on these were a number of buckets of green calsomine.
-Hans had tried to get out through the doorway, but there were too
-many people crowded into it and he knew that if he got into that
-crowd Billy would surely catch him, but now he saw the step-ladders,
-and running to one of them started to climb up.  Billy, however,
-was through with the cook and had taken after Hans again.
-
-Hans, being so fat, was very slow in climbing a step-ladder, and
-he had only puffed his way up one step when Billy tried to help him
-up a little farther with his head and horns after a big running jump.
-Smash! went the step-ladders.  Crash! went the long boards.  The
-buckets of green calsomine flew everywhere.  One of them tumbled
-down right over Hans' head like a hat that was a couple of sizes too
-large for him, and the green paint ran all over his face, down his
-neck and over his clothes.  Another bucket of it landed in the
-middle of the dining-room table, splashing and splattering all over the
-clean cloth and over everybody who sat around it.
-
-Billy, having done more damage than a dozen ordinary goats
-could hope to do in a lifetime, now made for the door, and the
-people there scattered very quickly to let him through.  Billy himself
-had received his share of the green calsomine and he was a queer
-looking sight as he darted out and went flying up the street, with an
-enemy after him in the shape of the fat cook, who had grabbed down
-a shot-gun from where it hung over the mantlepiece in the dining-room
-and had started out after him.
-
-The cook was mad clear through and he was going to kill that
-goat.  Frank, however, was close after the cook, and being able to
-run much the faster, soon caught up with him.
-
-"Wait!" he panted, tugging at the tail of the cook's white jacket.
-"Wait!  That's my goat!" he cried.  "Don't you kill my goat!"
-
-"Away with you, nuisance!" cried the cook, jerking loose from
-Frank and at the same time pushing him.
-
-Frank fell over backwards, although it did not hurt him, and
-while he was getting to his feet the cook took careful aim at the
-flying goat and pulled the trigger.
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-Billy Mischief was lucky.  In his excitement the fat
-cook had forgotten that the shotgun had not been loaded
-for five years.  The cook was so angry that he nearly
-burst a blood vessel.  Grabbing the gun by the barrel,
-he jammed it, as he thought, butt end on the ground.  Instead of
-that, however, he struck his broad foot a mighty thump.
-
-"Thunder and hailstones!" he screamed, and jerking his foot
-up he began to hop along on the other leg, making the most ridiculous
-faces while he did it.  In spite of the pain that the gun must have
-caused the cook, Frank could not help but laugh, and he forgot all
-his anger at the push the man had given him.
-
-"What's the matter?" asked Frank when he could catch his
-breath.  "Does it hurt?"
-
-The cook did not understand English but he felt that Frank
-was poking fun at him, and stopped his dance long enough to shake
-his fist at Frank.  He wanted to say something very sharp and
-cutting to the boy, but he could not think of anything strong enough,
-so, after drawing his breath hard two or three times and screwing
-up his mouth with pain, he turned the gun muzzle end down, and,
-using it for a crutch, swung along back to the inn, muttering and
-mumbling all the way.
-
-Frank laughed so hard that he had to sit down at the edge of the
-sidewalk a moment to hold his sides, but all at once he thought of
-his goat.  There it was, going up the street, and although little more
-than a green and white speck now, Frank bravely took after it.
-He probably never would have caught it except that Billy, also
-being tired and feeling himself free from pursuit, stopped before a
-big house set well back from the street, on a wide, fine lawn.
-
-Now the house in front of which he had stopped was the residence
-of the burgomaster, or mayor of the village, a very pompous
-fellow who thought a great deal of his own importance, and in the
-center of his lawn he had a fountain of which he was very proud.
-The water in the base of the fountain was clear as crystal and it
-looked very cool and inviting to Billy after his dusty run, and,
-besides, the paint on his back felt sticky.  Without wasting any time
-about it, Billy trotted up across the nice lawn and jumped into the
-fountain for a bath, just as the burgomaster came out of his front
-door with his stout cane in his hand.
-
-"Pig of a goat!" cried the burgomaster, hurrying down the walk
-and across the lawn.  "Out with him!  Police!" and he drew a
-little silver whistle from his pocket, whistling loudly upon it; then,
-shaking his cane in the air, he ran up to the edge of the fountain,
-the waters of which were turned a bright green by this time.  Billy
-saw him coming, but, instead of jumping out of the fountain and
-running away, he merely splashed around to the far side of the
-basin.  The burgomaster ran to that side of the fountain but Billy
-simply splashed around out of his reach.  Then the burgomaster,
-up on the stone coping of the fountain, began to run around and
-around after Billy, the goat keeping just out of his reach and the
-burgomaster trying to strike him with the cane.  At last, after an
-especially hard blow, the burgomaster went plunging headlong into
-the green water of the basin, where he floundered about like a cow
-in a bath tub.
-
-Billy jumped on him and used him as a stepping stone out of the
-basin, running back to the street just as Frank and a stupid looking
-policeman came running up from different directions.  At first the
-policeman was going to arrest the goat, but Frank pointed to where
-the burgomaster was still flopping around in the fountain and the
-policeman ran to help the burgomaster, who was now dyed a beautiful
-green, face and hands and clothes, while Frank took Billy by
-one horn and raced back down the street with him.  This was what
-Billy liked.  He was a young goat, and, like other young animals,
-was playful, and he thought that Frank's racing with him was good
-fun, so he went along willingly enough, and when Frank let go of
-his horn, he galloped along beside his young master very contentedly.
-
-Frank ran back to the hotel with his goat as fast as he could go,
-but when they drew near he saw a large crowd out in front and
-their carriage waiting for them, with the horses hitched and the
-driver sitting up in front.  Mrs. Brown was in the carriage and
-Frank's father was in front of the crowd handing out money, first to
-one and then to the other.  When Frank and his goat came up his
-father looked at the goat very sternly.
-
-"See all the trouble that animal has made us!" he said.  "I
-have had to pay out in damages nearly every cent of cash I have with
-me, and as there is no bank in this little village, my letter of credit
-is worth nothing here.  We must hurry on to Bern as fast as we can,
-and I want you to leave that goat behind you.  We can't bother with
-him any more.  Come on and get in."
-
-"But, father," explained Frank, "the goat did not know what
-he was doing."
-
-"It does not matter," replied Mr. Brown.  "There's no telling
-what kind of mischief he will get into next."
-
-"But, father," again urged Frank, "if you've had to pay out
-all that money for him you might as well have the goat.  There is
-no use of losing the goat and money, too."
-
-"Get in the carriage," said Mr. Brown, sharply.
-
-"But, father—" again Frank began to argue.  This time, however,
-Mr. Brown cut him short, and, picking him up, put him into
-the carriage with a not very gentle hand.  Then, climbing in
-himself, he ordered the driver to start.
-
-Billy had taken his place back where he had been tied the other
-time, and he was surprised to find the carriage moving on without
-him.  The cook, seeing that the goat was to be left behind, started
-forward to give the animal a kick, but Billy was too quick for him.
-Wheeling, he suddenly ran between the cook's legs and doubled him
-over.  Just behind the cook stood Hans Zug, and as Billy wriggled
-out sideways from beneath the cook's feet, the cook tumbled back
-against Hans and both of them went to the ground.  Billy stood
-and shook his head for a moment as if to double them up again
-before they got to their feet, but the sight of the retreating carriage
-made him change his mind and he ran after it with Hans and the
-fat cook chasing him.
-
-The carriage was not going very rapidly, and Billy, after he
-had caught up with it, merely trotted along back of the rear axle,
-so that when the carriage passed the burgomaster's house, Hans and
-the cook were not very far behind.  They were bound to catch that
-goat and punish him for what he had done, although it is very likely
-that before they got through they would have sold him and kept the
-money.  The burgomaster was still out in front, fretting and fuming,
-but the stupid policeman was gone.  He had been sent down to the
-hotel to arrest the foreign boy and his goat, and he was too stupid
-to notice them, even with Hans and the cook paddling along behind.
-He had nothing in his mind but the hotel to which he had been sent.
-The burgomaster, however, recognized the green-tinted goat as soon
-as he saw him.
-
-"There he goes!" cried the burgomaster.  "Brute beast of a
-goat!  Halt, I say!"  Blowing his little whistle, he, too, so filled
-with anger that it made him puff up like a toad, started out after the
-carriage; and there they ran, the three clumsy-looking fat men, one
-after the other, puffing and panting and blowing, just out of reach
-of the goat.
-
-.. _`There they ran, the three clumsy-looking fat men.`:
-
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-   :align: center
-   :alt: There they ran, the three clumsy-looking fat men.
-
-   There they ran, the three clumsy-looking fat men.
-
-Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Frank were too intent on getting up
-the steep street and out of the town to notice what was going on
-behind them, but just now they came to the top of the hill and began
-to go down the gentle slope on the other side.  The driver whipped
-up his horses, the goat also increased his pace, and away they went.
-The cook, seeing that the goat was about to escape, made a lunge,
-thinking that he could grab it by the tail or the hind legs, but as he
-did so his feet caught on a stone and over he went.  Hans Zug, being
-right behind him, tumbled over him, and the fat burgomaster
-tumbled over both of them.  The burgomaster was so angry that he
-felt he surely must throw somebody into jail, so, as soon as he could
-get his breath, he grabbed Hans Zug by the collar with one hand
-and the cook with the other.
-
-.. _`Billy saw him coming, and splashed around to the far side of the fountain.`:
-
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-   :alt: BILLY SAW HIM COMING, SPLASHED AROUND TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE FOUNTAIN.
-
-   BILLY SAW HIM COMING, SPLASHED AROUND TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE FOUNTAIN.
-
-"I arrest you in the name of Canton Bern for obstructing a high
-officer!" he exclaimed, and the stupid policeman running up just
-then, he turned poor Hans and the cook over to him and sent them
-to jail.
-
-All the hot, dusty afternoon Billy followed Mr. Brown's carriage,
-now up hill and now down hill, without ever showing himself
-to them.  Whenever he thought of straying off into the pleasant
-grassy valleys and striking out into the world for himself again, he
-remembered that the Browns were going to America and that if he
-went with them he might see his mother again.  He did not know,
-of course, that America was such a large place, so, while now and
-then he stopped at the roadside to nibble a mouthful of grass or
-stopped when they crossed a stream to get a drink of water, he never
-lost sight of them, but when he found himself getting too far behind,
-scampered on and overtook them.
-
-.. _`Billy followed Mr. Brown's carriage.`:
-
-.. figure:: images/img-045.jpg
-   :align: center
-   :alt: Billy followed Mr. Brown's carriage.
-
-   Billy followed Mr. Brown's carriage.
-
-It was not until nightfall that the carriage rolled into the city
-of Bern.  Billy had never seen so large a city before and the
-rumbling of many wagons and carriages, the passing of the many people
-on the streets and the hundreds of lights confused and surprised him.
-He was not half so surprised at this, however, as Mr. and Mrs. Brown
-and Frank were to find Billy behind their carriage when they
-stopped in front of a large, handsome hotel.  Frank was the first
-one to discover him.
-
-"Oh, see, papa!" he cried.  "My Billy followed us all the way
-from the village; so now I do get to keep him, don't I?"
-
-Mr. Brown smiled and gave up.
-
-"I'm afraid he's an expensive goat, Frank," was all he said, and
-then he gave Billy in charge of one of the porters who had crowded
-around the carriage.
-
-"Wash the paint from this goat and lock him up some place for
-the night where he can't do any damage," he directed the porter.
-
-Billy was glad enough to have the dry green paint scrubbed off
-his back and he willingly went with the porter to a clean little
-basement room, where he got a good scrubbing.  Then the porter went
-into another room and brought him out some nice carrots with green
-tops still on them, and, leaving a basin of water for him to drink,
-went out and closed the door carefully after him.  Billy liked the
-carrots, but he did not like to be shut up in a dark room, so he soon
-went all around the walls trying to find a way out.  There was no
-way except the two doors and a high, dim window.  He tried to butt
-the doors down but they were of solid, heavy oak, and he could not
-do it.  In a few minutes, however the porter came back for his keys,
-and the moment he opened the door Billy seized his chance.
-Gathering his legs under him for a big jump, he rushed between the
-man's legs and dashed up the stairs, out through the narrow courtyard
-and on the street.  The porter, as soon as he could get to his
-feet, rushed out after him, but Billy was nowhere in sight and the
-poor porter did not know what to do.  He did not dare to go back
-and tell Mr. Brown that the goat had gotten loose, because he would
-be charged with carelessness.
-
-In the meantime Billy had galloped up the street and turned
-first one corner and then another, until he came to a street much
-wider and brighter and busier than any of the others.  By this time
-first one boy and then another and then another had followed him,
-until now there was a big crowd of them running after him and
-shouting at the top of their lungs.
-
-A large dog that a lady was leading along the sidewalk by a
-strap broke away from his mistress as soon as he saw Billy and ran
-out to bark at him.  Billy lowered his head and shook it at the dog.
-The dog began to circle round him closer and closer, barking loudly
-all the while.  A man driving a big dray stopped to watch them;
-the boys crowded round in a big ring; men came from the sidewalks
-and joined the crowd; a carriage had to stop just behind the
-dray, then another; a wagon coming from the other direction could
-not get through; and presently the street was filled from sidewalk
-to sidewalk, the whole length of the block, with a big crowd of
-people and a jam of vehicles of all kinds.  Policemen tried to push
-their way through the crowd and tried to get the blockade loosened
-and moving on, but their time was wasted.
-
-In the meantime Billy was turning around and around where
-he stood, always facing the dog which now began to dart in with a
-snap of his teeth and dart away again, trying to get a hold on Billy.
-The goat was too quick, however, and dodged every time the dog
-made a snap.  He was waiting for his chance and at last it came.
-The dog, in jumping away from one of his snaps, turned his body
-for a moment sideways to the goat and in that moment Billy gathered
-himself up and made a spring, hitting the dog square in the side
-and sending him over against the crowd.  Billy followed like a
-little white streak of lightning and, before the dog could get on
-his feet, had butted him again.
-
-Such a howling and yelling as there was among that side of the
-crowd; Billy and the dog were now among them and they could
-not scatter much for there were too many people packed solidly
-behind them.  The dog yelped as Billy butted him and began to
-run around and around the circle with Billy right after him.  After
-they had made two or three circles, Billy overtook the dog and,
-giving him one more good one, jumped between the legs of the
-crowd and wriggled his way through among carriages and wagons,
-under horses and between wheels, until at last he was free from the
-crowd.
-
-Nobody at the outer edge noticed him getting away because
-they did not know what the excitement was and they were all pressing
-forward to see.  Just as he left, somebody who could not understand
-what else could make such excitement cried, "Fire!"
-
-The cry was taken up, and that made still more confusion.
-People began pouring into that block from every direction.  More
-wagons and carriages came.  Some one had turned in a fire alarm,
-and presently here came the fire engines from three or four directions
-at once, clanging and clattering their way to this crowded block.
-The city of Bern had never known so much excitement.
-
-
-
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-   CHAPTER V
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-   THE WOODEN GOAT
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-Billy trotted contentedly on, liking all the noise and
-hubbub very much but not knowing that he was the
-cause of it all.  Blocks away he could hear their shouting,
-but he did not care to go back there, for all of that.
-He was finding a great many things to interest him in the shop
-windows, which were all brilliantly lighted.  Before one of these low
-windows he suddenly stopped.  There, just inside the show window,
-was a big, brown goat.  Billy did not know it, but this was a wooden
-goat, poised on its hind feet and ready to make a spring to butt
-somebody.  The Swiss woodcarvers are the finest in the world, and they
-carve animals so naturally that one would think they were alive.
-If even human beings can be fooled, there was very good excuse for
-Billy's believing this to be a real, live goat, particularly as it had
-very natural looking glass eyes; besides, its head was separate and
-was cunningly arranged to shake a little bit from side to side.
-
-Now it is a deadly insult for one Billy goat to stand on his
-hind legs and wag his head at another one.  Billy Mischief for one
-was not going to take such insults as that, even though the goat that
-gave it to him was much larger and older than himself, so he backed
-off into the middle of the street and gave a great run and jump.
-Crash! went the fine plate-glass window!  The sharp edges of the
-glass cut Billy somewhat and stopped him so that he landed just
-inside the window glass.  The other goat was right in front of him,
-still insultingly wagging its
-flowing beard at him so Billy gave
-one more spring from where he
-stood and knocked that goat
-sixteen ways for Sunday.  It was
-the hardest headed goat that
-Billy had ever fought, and its
-sharp nose hurt his head
-considerably, almost stunning him, in
-fact, so that he stood blinking
-his eyes until the people in
-the store had come running
-up and surrounded the show window.
-
-.. _`Gave a great run and jump.`:
-
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-   :align: left
-   :alt: Gave a great run and jump.
-
-   Gave a great run and jump.
-
-Billy was still dazed
-when the manager of the store, a
-nervous little man with a bald head, hit him a sharp crack across the
-nose with a board.  The pain brought the tears to Billy's eyes and
-still further dazed him.  The manager hit him another crack but this
-time on the horns, and that woke Billy up.  He looked back at the
-broken window through which he had just come but the crowd had
-quickly gathered there.  There were less people inside, so suddenly
-gathering his legs under him, he gave a spring and went clear over the
-manager, kicking him with his sharp hind hoofs upon the bald
-head as he went over.  The place was a delicatessen store and Billy
-landed in a big tub of pickles.  He did not care much for pickles
-anyhow, so he quickly scrambled out of them, knocked over three
-tall glass jars that stood on a low bench, and turned over big cakes
-of fine cheese.  The manager was right after him with the board and
-hit him two or three thumps with it.
-
-Billy was just about to turn around and go for the little
-bald-headed man when he noticed at the far end of the store a round,
-plump man with his back turned to him.  There seemed something
-familiar about his figure and the cut of his short little coat, and it
-flashed across Billy at once that here was his old enemy Hans Zug.
-
-Paying no attention to the manager and his little board, he
-dashed headlong down the store for the plump man.  Just as Billy
-had almost reached him, the man turned around.  It was not Hans
-Zug after all, but Billy was going too fast to stop now.  Anyhow,
-ever since he had known Hans he had taken a dislike to all fat men,
-so he dashed straight ahead.  The man darted behind the counter
-and ran up the aisle, Billy close after him.
-
-There never was a fat man in the world who ran so fast as this
-one.  Everybody had cleared out of the aisle behind the counter
-to make room for them.  Nobody wanted to get in the way of
-that heavy man and the hard headed goat.  The man stepped upon
-a pail of fish, overturning it, jumped upon the counter and was
-over in the center aisle, Billy right after him.  Everybody in the
-store was packed in the center aisle, together with a lot who had
-come in from the outside when the excitement began, and they all
-made way for the fat man and for Billy.  Women were screaming
-and men were shouting and laughing.  The manager was still right
-after Billy with his little board and thumping him every now and
-then on the back, but Billy scarcely knew it, so interested was he in
-giving the fat man one for Hans Zug.
-
-The man headed straight up the middle aisle for the door, but,
-looking over his shoulder, he found that Billy would overtake him
-before he got there, so he sprang over another counter, upsetting a
-pair of scales and some tall, open jars of fine olives.  Billy was still
-right after him but this time the man fooled him by jumping back
-over the counter.  Billy followed up that aisle to the end where
-he turned into the crowd, just as the fat man went out on the street.
-Here he upset two ladies and a policeman who was just coming in,
-and then took after the man who looked like Hans.  He was flying
-down the street as fast as he could go.  After Billy came the manager
-of the store and two of his clerks, and all of the boys that had
-congregated on the sidewalk.
-
-Pell-mell they went, a howling, yelling mob, with the fat man
-and Billy in the lead.  The man by this time was puffing like a
-steam engine and the sweat was pouring from his face in streams.
-His collar was wilted like a dish rag.  He had lost his hat and one
-of his cuffs, and he could hardly get his breath.
-
-Policemen, by this time, were coming running from every direction
-and one of them, who turned off a side street just then,
-thinking the fat man must be a thief, got right in his road and opened up
-his arms.  The fat man, who had scarcely any strength left, fell
-right against the policeman who was also a very heavy fellow, and
-just at that time Billy overtook them and gave the man he was
-chasing all that was coming to Hans Zug.  Down in a pile together
-went the fat man and the policeman.  The policeman had not seen
-the goat and for a moment imagined that the fat man had jumped
-upon him and was trying to overpower him, so he pulled out his
-club and, though he was underneath, began, in a way that was
-comical, to try to pound the fat man.
-
-They lay there, a struggling, wriggling mass, the policeman
-with his short arms trying to reach around the big round man on
-top of him in order to hit him some place.  Billy Mischief had
-stopped and backed up to give his fallen enemy another bump, and
-was just in the air after his spring when the manager of the store
-caught his hind leg, and he also was dragged on top of the struggling
-two on the ground.  The manager held to Billy's leg, however, and
-the crowd which had been following them closely now crowded
-around them.  The manager scrambled to his feet, still holding the
-kicking Billy by the hind leg, and it would, probably have been all
-up with the goat if a big, strong man had not at that moment come
-up and putting his great arms around Billy, jerked him loose.  Billy
-squirmed and struggled, but it was no use.  The big man held him
-tightly and began to run.  The store manager got to his feet and
-started after them, followed by his two clerks, but the big strong
-fellow who was carrying Billy darted down an alley, then through
-another alley, and before the pursuers could see where they had
-gone, the man darted through the back gate of a high board fence
-with Billy, closed the gate after him, ran along the side of a great
-building which was blazing with lights, ran down some cellar steps,
-opened the door, went in, closed it after him, turned on a light and
-set Billy down.
-
-"There, you fool goat!" exclaimed the man.  "I'll wash the
-blood off of you and nobody will know that you have been out."
-
-The big man was the porter and he had brought Billy back to
-the little basement room under the hotel.  So ended Billy's first night
-in a big city.
-
-All that night, all the next day and night, and all the
-following day, Billy was cooped up in that little basement room with
-no chance to get out, and with only Frank Brown and the porter
-to visit him twice a day.  How he did fret.  The porter kept him
-well fed and saw that he had good bedding and plenty of water,
-but he gave Billy no more chances to escape and see the city.  He
-watched carefully as he opened and closed the door that the goat
-should not again scramble between his legs or butt him over.  On
-the third evening, however, the porter forgot to completely close the
-door which led into the other part of the basement, and you may be
-sure that Billy lost no time in finding out what was in there.  The
-room next to his led up into the kitchen and it was stocked with
-vegetables and all sorts of kitchen stores.
-
-Billy was not very hungry, but he nibbled at everything as he
-went along, pulling the vegetables out of place, upsetting a barrel
-half filled with flour in his attempt to see what was in it and working
-the faucet out of a barrel of syrup in his efforts to get at the sweet
-stuff which clung to it.  Licking up all of the syrup that he cared
-for, Billy went on to investigate another barrel which lay on its side
-not far away, and knocked the faucet out of it.  This, however,
-proved to be wine and he did not like the taste of it at all, so he
-trotted on out of the store-room into the laundry, leaving the two
-barrels to run to waste.
-
-.. _`Pulling the vegetables out of place.`:
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-   :align: center
-   :alt: Pulling the vegetables out of place.
-
-   Pulling the vegetables out of place.
-
-Everybody in the laundry had gone up into the servants' hall
-for their suppers, and the coast was clear for Billy.  They had just
-finished ironing, and dainty white clothes lay everywhere.  From
-a big pile of them that lay on a table, a lace skirt hung down, and
-Billy took a nibble at it just to find out what it was.  The starch
-in it tasted pretty good, so he chewed at the lace, pulling and tugging
-to get it within easier reach, until at last he pulled the whole pile
-off the table on the dirty floor.
-
-Hearing some steps then, he scampered out through the storeroom
-and into another large room where stood a big, brass-trimmed
-machine which he did not at all understand.  It was a dynamo,
-which was run by a big engine in the adjoining engine-room, and it
-furnished the electric lights for the hotel.  Two big wires ran from
-it, heavily coated with shellac and rubber and tightly-wound tape
-to keep them from touching metal things and losing their electricity.
-These crossed the basement room to the further wall, where they
-distributed the electric current to many smaller cables.
-
-Billy sniffed at the two big cables at a point where they were
-very near together.  They had a peculiar odor and Billy tasted
-them.  He scarcely knew whether he liked the taste or not, but he
-kept on nibbling to find out, nipping and tearing with his sharp
-teeth until he had got down to the big copper wire on both cables;
-then he decided that he did not care very much for that kind of
-food and walked away.  It was not yet dark enough for the dynamo
-to be started, or Billy might have had a shock that would have
-killed him.
-
-Hunting further, he found over in a dark corner a nice bed
-which belonged to the engineer, and it looked so inviting that Billy
-curled up there for a sleep.  When he awoke it was nearly midnight
-and there was a blaze of light in the basement.  There was a strange
-whir of machinery and he could hear anxious voices.  Billy, of
-course, did not know that he had been the cause of it but this is what
-had happened:
-
-When the electric current passes through a wire, the wire becomes
-slightly heated and stretches a little bit.  In stretching, the
-two cables where he had chewed them bare, came near enough
-together to touch each other once in a while, and that made the
-lights all over the big building wink, that is, almost go out for a
-second, and the engineer was very much worried about it.
-
-What interested Billy more, however, was a small, wire-screened
-room that stood near to him.  Presently a big cage, brightly lighted,
-came down in it with a man and a boy.  It stopped when it got down
-into the basement, when the man and the boy stepped out, going
-down into the engineer's room.  They were the proprietor of the
-hotel and his elevator boy.  Billy, as curious as any boy could have
-been, walked into the little cage to see what it was like.  The sides of
-it were padded with leather, there were mirrors in it that made it
-a place of light, and there was a seat at the back end of it.  At the
-front side near the door a big cable passed up through it, and to this
-the boy who ran it had left hanging a leather pad with which he
-gripped the cable.  Billy could barely reach it with his teeth and
-he pulled sharply on it.  It would not come away so he hung his
-weight on it, and immediately the cage began to go up.  Billy
-was in an elevator and he was taking a ride all by himself.  It
-never stopped until it reached the top floor where a safety catch
-caught it.  Luckily the door on the top floor had not been carefully
-closed, and Billy was able to slide it open with his horns and walk
-out into a narrow hall which had a thick velvet carpet upon it and
-from which opened many doors and other halls.
-
-.. _`BILLY FELT HIS COURAGE COMING BACK.`:
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-   :align: center
-   :alt: BILLY FELT HIS COURAGE COMING BACK.
-
-   BILLY FELT HIS COURAGE COMING BACK.
-
-Billy trotted along this hallway, liking the soft feel of the
-carpet underneath his feet.  As he did so, all the lights about the
-building went out and everything was dark.  The cables in the cellar had
-at last settled down so that they lay square across each other where
-Billy had chewed the covering off, thus making all the electric
-current which ran out of the machine on the one side come right back
-into it on the other, with the result of burning out the dynamo so
-that there could be no more lights from it that night.  This did not
-worry Billy any.  Light came in from the street at the far end of the
-hall where some white lace curtains fluttered in the breeze.  It
-worried a great many people who were still awake in their rooms,
-however, and of course they opened their doors to see about it.
-
-By this time Billy had reached the curtains and took a nibble
-at one of them, and, found that it was finished with the same starch,
-the taste of which he had liked so much in the laundry.  He wanted
-it down where he could get a good bunch of it in his mouth, so he
-pulled hard, raising up on his hind feet and throwing his weight
-upon it.  The curtain gave way at the top but it was not so
-convenient as he had expected, for the long, wide curtain came right
-down over his back.  He tried to get out from under it and his horns
-ran through the open work.  He tried to turn round and his hind
-feet ran through other open work places.  He tried to back out of
-it and his forefeet got tangled in some more of it.  The more he
-tried to get loose from his starched meal, the more tangled up he
-got, and at last, growing angry, he began to jump as high in the air
-as he could.
-
-In the half darkness, he was a great white figure with a long
-trailing white robe behind him, and the first woman he met in the
-hall screamed like a steam calliope.  Of course her screams brought
-others out into the hall and everybody, even the men, began to run
-when they saw this jumping white ghost coming toward them, every
-once in a while letting out a loud "baah!"  Many ladies were so
-frightened that when they came to their doors, instead of running
-into their rooms, they started down the hall ahead of Billy, shrieking
-and screaming at the top of their voices.
-
-The noise only confused Billy the more.  The more confused
-he grew, the harder he jumped and struggled to get out of the curtain,
-until at the very end of the hall, he came to a stairway and went
-down it head over heels to the next floor.
-
-Here things were even worse than they had been on the top
-floor, for by this time the hubbub above them had brought everybody
-out of their rooms, and the crowd was already there.  As soon as
-Billy scampered to his feet after his tumble and made another jump
-high into the air, they too began running and screaming.
-
-Billy now had gotten into a series of halls that ran the whole
-length of the building and had a stairway at each end, so now he
-jumped and struggled his way along until he came to a stairway,
-tumbled down it, jumped back through another hall full of screaming
-people to another stairway, and so on until he reached the ground
-floor.  Here the stairway opened into the great, marble-paved, main
-corridor of the hotel.  This was just now thronged with men, all
-wanting to know why the lights were out and what all the uproar was
-about.  Through these men Billy dashed like a hurricane, having
-now torn the curtains enough to let his legs have some action.  One
-big fellow whom he upset fell on the long trailing end of the curtain,
-and the shock nearly tore Billy's horns loose from his head, but the
-curtain pulled in two and at last Billy was free except for a few
-stray shreds and small pieces that still clung to his legs and horns.
-
-Now he could see where he was going, and, darting out of
-the side door, he ran back to where he remembered the cellar steps
-into the porter's room to be.  The door was wide open and inside he
-found his friend, the porter, with a lantern, looking for him.  The
-porter saw at once from the shreds of curtain that Billy had been into
-mischief again, but as before, he was afraid to say anything about it
-for fear somebody would find out that he had left the door of the
-store-room open, so he simply took the shreds of lace curtain off of
-Billy to carry away with him, and fixed Billy's bed nicely for the
-night.
-
-"Bet you came from the Bad Place sure, goat-beast," said the
-porter, shaking his head.
-
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-The next morning, bright and early, the porter came
-down to Billy's room with a queer looking box made of
-heavy slats.  One side of the box was off and the porter
-carried it in his hand.  Setting the box down with the
-open side towards Billy, the porter put an extra bunch of carrots in
-it, and Billy, never having seen anything like this before, walked
-right in and began to eat his breakfast, upon which the porter quickly
-slapped on the side of the box and nailed it tight.  Billy did not
-realize that he was trapped until the porter and another man whom
-he called lifted the box and began to carry it up the stairs.  Then
-Billy was angry in earnest.  He jumped and jerked as much as he
-could and nearly threw the men down-stairs by his bouncing.  As
-soon as they got up on the level ground, however, the porter and
-the other man began to shake the crate as hard as they could, so
-that, in place of Billy doing the bouncing, he was being bounced
-until he had plenty of it and was glad to lie down on the floor of
-the crate and hold still, while he was being carried to a big dray that
-stood in waiting.
-
-While it was being loaded on the dray, Mr. Brown and Frank
-came out in the courtyard to see him.
-
-"Isn't he a beauty, papa?" said Frank.  "And he behaves himself
-so nicely, too.  I've been down to see him every other day
-and he's just as nice and quiet as he can be."
-
-"I don't know," said his father, shaking his head.  "I don't
-believe that a goat able to stir up as much trouble as he did back in
-the village where we bought him will be anything but a scamp goat
-to the end of his days.  I'm really sorry that I bought him.  It's
-going to cost a lot of money, too, to send him by express from here
-to Havre and to pay his passage over to America.  I have a big
-notion to turn him loose."
-
-When Billy heard that he was frightened, and, turning his
-solemn eyes around to Mr. Brown, he "baahed" as pitifully as he
-could.
-
-"Just hear that, papa," said Frank, "he wants to go with us.  He
-likes us."
-
-"Oh, very well," said Mr. Brown.  "But come, we must hurry
-up.  We have only a few minutes to make our train."
-
-As soon as Mr. Brown and Frank had walked away, the driver
-of the wagon cracked his whip, the horses started up, and Billy
-was rapidly taken to the depot.  Here he was loaded into an express
-car, and in a few moments more was headed toward France at as
-swift a pace as the engine could pull the train.  The express messenger
-in the car, as soon as his work was done, lit a short black pipe
-and commenced teasing Billy.  Reaching his hand between the slats,
-he suddenly poked Billy in the ribs, and Billy, already nervous from
-the rapid motion, jumped straight up off his forefeet.  Of course
-his horns hit the top of the box and pained him.  The man laughed
-at the funny motion and poked the goat again.  This time, Billy,
-afraid to jump up, merely danced, and the man laughed aloud.
-Again and again he repeated his trick until the goat was nearly
-frantic.  Billy tried to burst out the side of his cage so that he could
-get at the man, but the crate was too stout for him to do it any
-damage and he only hurt himself by trying, so after a while he gave it up.
-
-At the next stop they made, however, the express agent, while
-he was taking on the parcels, slammed a heavy box on top of the
-crate.  Billy heard the timbers crack and felt the box giving
-end-wise a trifle.  For a moment he was afraid that the heavy box would
-break down his crate and squeeze him flat underneath it, but as soon
-as the train had started again the messenger moved the box into the far
-end of the car and Billy was delighted to find that at last the boards on
-one side of his prison were loosened.  The messenger had laid aside
-his glowing pipe at this stop, but now he took it up again, although
-smoking was against the rules, and came over to tease Billy.  He had
-no more than thrust his hand through than Billy lurched his body
-sideways as hard as he could against the boards, and out he tumbled.
-
-He was on his feet as quick as a cat and made a jump at the
-man.  The express agent dodged him and ran to the far end of the
-car, hunting wildly for something with which he might strike the
-angry goat.  Billy was up to him before he had time to find anything,
-however, and chased him from one end of the car to the other.
-At last the man stopped in front of the big
-box that he had taken on at the
-last station, and waited for
-Billy to jump
-for him.  When Billy jumped, he
-sprang aside and let the goat plunge
-head first into the side of the box,
-breaking open one of the boards and hurting his head considerably.
-By this time the man was at the other end of the car and laughing.
-Billy ran after him again, but this time he knew the man's ways.
-When he started to dodge back from the other end of the car, Billy
-also turned like a flash and was right after him.  This time he got
-him and gave him a bump that sent the man sprawling headlong on
-the floor.  As the man went down, his arm gave a jerk and his
-lighted pipe went through the hole that Billy had butted in the big
-box.
-
-.. _`Dodged him and ran to the far end of the car.`:
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-   :alt: Dodged him and ran to the far end of the car.
-
-   Dodged him and ran to the far end of the car.
-
-The man was just scrambling to his feet when a big, blue ball
-of fire shot out of the side of the box and scooted along his back.
-Billy had wheeled to give the man another dose of his medicine,
-but just then a big ball of red fire hit him in the side and he, too,
-tried to hunt a corner.  The box was full of fireworks that was being
-shipped for a lawn fete, and for the next few minutes there was the
-most exciting time that ever happened inside of an express car going
-at full speed.
-
-Skyrockets and Roman candles, whistling bombs and silver
-fountains, flower-pots and pin-wheels filled the air, spitting and
-spluttering, popping about from one end of the car to the other,
-bouncing first off of the man and then off the goat.  No place was
-safe.  The side of the box was soon burst open by the force of the
-explosions, and the fireworks came tumbling out at greater speed
-than ever.
-
-Both Billy and the express agent were hit until they were bruised
-and burned and sore all over.  Billy had a great deal of his hair
-singed off and the express agent's face was as black as a coal-miner's.
-The smoke became so thick that they could scarcely see, and it
-smarted and blinded their eyes until the express agent thought to
-open the side doors when the rapidly rushing wind swept in and
-carried away most of the smoke.
-
-Luckily the car did not catch fire, though some of the goods
-that were being expressed did.  The agent had a pail of drinking
-water in the car and as soon as the fireworks were nearly burned out
-he ran around from one place to another using his water sparingly
-and beating out the fire wherever he could.
-
-Billy, too, seemed to know that burning things were dangerous,
-for when a bundle of rugs began to smoulder he jumped on the
-burning places and stamped them with his feet until the fire was
-beaten out.  The express agent saw him at this and he at once forgot
-his anger at the goat.  Billy went scampering around after that,
-stamping out fire wherever he could find a coal.  After all danger
-was passed and the express man had tidied up his car, he sat down
-puffing and looked at Billy.
-
-"Well, Mr. Goat," said he, "we've had a busy time of it and I
-guess we'd better be friends.  Don't you tell on me and I won't tell
-on you.  I don't want to let anybody know that I was smoking a
-pipe anyhow.  It's against the rules of the company."
-
-"Baah!" said Billy, and that's all the talk they had about it.
-After that they had no further trouble except that the express agent
-tried to coax Billy back into his crate, but had to give it up as a bad
-job.
-
-It was night when the train bearing Billy Mischief drew into
-Paris.  Billy could not be coaxed or driven back into his cage, so,
-when the train stopped, the express messenger had another man come
-in to help him.  Between them they managed, after a hard struggle,
-to get Billy in the crate, but as they were trying to fasten the
-lid on he burst out of it, jumped out of the car door, ran as hard as
-he could and soon was safe from pursuit and alone in the streets of
-Paris.
-
-With a natural instinct to hide from the men who wanted to
-put him in that close, uncomfortable box, he turned into the alley-ways
-and dark, narrow streets and for a long time ran on without
-meeting anyone.  But this sort of thing was not very much to Billy's
-liking.  He wanted to see all the excitement that there was, so
-by-and-by he turned into one of the broad, brilliantly lighted streets,
-where he trotted along sedately, minding his own business and
-looking around him curiously at the gayly dressed throngs.  A great
-many people turned round to look after him and laugh, he trotted
-along so solemnly.
-
-All this time there was great excitement at the railroad station.
-Mr. Brown had left word that his goat was to be held until the next
-night's train to Havre as he intended to spend a day in Paris, but the
-express department had no goat to hold, so the matter was reported
-to the police department, and within a few moments all the
-red-trousered gendarmes of Paris were looking for a mischievous white
-goat with freshly singed spots on his shiny coat.
-
-One of these gendarmes, soon after he had received his
-instructions, found Billy and a big
-stray Tom cat eyeing each
-other with every
-intention of immediate war.
-Billy had never spoken
-to a cat before and so
-when he saw this
-strange animal on the
-street he walked
-straight up to it and said
-"baah!"  He intended to mean
-something like our
-"Good evening.  It's
-pleasant weather,
-isn't it?" but Billy's
-voice at best was not a
-very gentle one and his long horns
-looked threatening, so the big cat arched his back and bristled his
-hair and stuck his tail straight up.  Billy did not know much about
-cats but he could easily see that this one meant fight, so he shook
-his head angrily.  They were standing in front of one of the pleasant
-Paris sidewalk cafés and a great many ladies and gentlemen were
-seated at little round tables under the broad awning.
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-   Billy and a big stray Tom cat eyeing each other.
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-Just as the gendarme recognized Billy by his singed coat, the
-cat let out an ear-splitting "meow!" and, jumping up, scratched
-Billy's face with the sharp claws of both his forefeet; then it sprang
-up on one of the empty tables and down on the other side.  Billy,
-smarting with the pain, jumped after him, upsetting the chairs on
-the other side with a crash.  The express department had offered
-a good reward to whoever should find Billy, so the gendarme took
-after the goat, overturning some more chairs.  The cat darted here
-and there and everywhere among the little round tables and
-Billy right after him.  The cat ran under a table at which were
-sitting two gentlemen and two ladies, and Billy, now so angry that he
-did not notice where he was going, forced his way right after him,
-upsetting the table, spilling the glasses and bottles upon it into the
-laps of the ladies and making a tremendous noise.  Table after table
-they overturned in this way.
-
-Another gendarme, attracted by the hubbub, came up and saw
-Billy.  He, too, gave chase, adding to the confusion.  Everybody
-began to shove back their chairs.  All of the people were either
-talking or laughing or screaming at the top of their voices.  Waiters
-came running, and one of them, a little excitable man with a funny
-little black mustache, tried to head Billy off.  All he got for it was
-a good bump right in the middle of his big white apron and he
-landed back against another waiter who was bringing a big tray full
-of glasses.  The two of them went to the floor together in a noisy
-pile of tables and chairs, and Billy dashed right on over them.  This
-time, the cat, which was bewildered by the crowd and had scarcely
-known which way to run, found an opening to the street.  Having
-a clear track, he would easily have gotten away from Billy except
-that just at that moment a third gendarme saw the cat and the goat
-coming and jumped square in the road of them.
-
-The cat had tried to dart around him but the gendarme's legs
-came right in his road, so the cat began to climb the gendarme, and
-Billy, coming up just then, made a dive head first at the cat, catching
-it just as the animal reached the gendarme's lower vest button.  The
-gendarme sat right down with a grunt to think things over, while
-the cat sprang for the top of a high fence and was over with a whisk
-of his tail.  Billy could not climb the fence so he ran back a piece
-and tried to butt it down, but he could not do it.  By this time the
-gendarme he had knocked down was on his feet again, and two others
-came running up.
-
-There were now five of the red-trousered little police soldiers
-after him, and things began to look very lively for Billy.  They
-tried to surround him but he ran through them, and all five of them
-chased after him up the street.  At nearly every block they were
-joined by another gendarme, so that before he had gone very far
-Billy was heading quite an army of French soldiers.  To escape
-he turned down a dark street.  They were digging a wide ditch
-across this dark street and the lights they had placed there as danger
-signals had been taken away by some mischievous boys.  Billy, who
-could see well in the dark, perceived this ditch as he came to it and
-leaped lightly over it, but the excited gendarmes who were following
-him could not see it, and the whole crowd of them fell headlong
-in the ditch, which, fortunately, was not yet deep enough to hurt them
-much.
-
-Billy turned now into another well-lighted street.  Here again
-he found a gendarme who, as soon as he saw and recognized Billy,
-started out to stop him.  He went like a streak between this fellow's
-legs.  Now he began to wonder why all of these little fellows in the
-red trousers were such enemies of his, and when, at the end of the
-block, he saw three of them standing in a row, he got angry.
-Shaking his head, he determined to give the big one in the middle the
-hardest bump he had ever given to anyone in his life.  Lowering
-his head and shaking it, he went on as if he had been shot out of a
-cannon, and, as he drew near, gave a mighty jump and butted the big
-gendarme right in the stomach.
-
-Alas for Billy!  In place of the soft human figure that he
-thought he was butting, it turned out that the gendarme in the middle
-was printed in glowing colors on paper and pasted against a solid
-brick wall, as an advertisement for a play then performing at one
-of the theatres.  The two gendarmes who had happened to stand
-alongside of it were real, however, so when Billy dropped back
-stunned from his hard jolt the two real gendarmes promptly
-arrested him, and it was a very sick and sorry goat that was shortly
-afterwards returned to the Express Department to be held for the
-Havre train.
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-Poor Billy, forced back into his crate and nailed up
-again, began to think he did not like traveling very well.
-So far he had been in two cities and so far he had seen
-neither one of them by daylight, while everywhere he
-went he got hurt.  All that night and all the next day, he moped
-in his crate with a sore head.  On the following night he was
-bundled into an express car, and giving up in despair, lay down and
-went to sleep.
-
-When he awoke it was daylight and he was being taken off
-the train in Havre where the Browns were to take the boat for
-Cherbourg and then for America.  This was the first time that Frank
-had seen Billy since they left Bern and when he and Mr. Brown
-walked up to the crate after it had been taken off the train, Frank's
-heart was filled with pity.  There were raw places on Billy's head,
-his fine shiny coat had the black marks of fire on it, and altogether
-he was as woe-begone and miserable a looking goat as ever was seen.
-Of course the Browns did not know anything of the adventures that
-Billy had been through, but Frank was a boy who did not like to see
-animals suffer and he was very angry.
-
-"Just see, papa," he cried, "how they have abused my poor goat,
-shut up in that tight crate all this time!  I'm sure he's not so bad a
-goat as you thought.  He has been imposed upon.  Please let me
-take him out of that crate and lead him by a rope.  I know that he
-will come along nicely."
-
-Billy "baahed" gratefully at this, and with some reluctance Mr. Brown
-allowed the goat to be taken out of the crate, let Frank secure
-a rope and tie him on behind the carriage which was to take them to
-their steamer.
-
-It was not Billy's fault that the knot was an ordinary single bow
-hitch, and Billy did not know, when he nipped at the little end
-which stuck out, that he would loosen the whole knot and let himself
-free, but that is exactly what happened.  For a time he trotted along
-nicely behind the carriage, but, as they reached the wharves, Billy
-saw a sight that filled him with eager interest.  Near a big cattle
-boat was an enormous pen filled with goats which were soon to be
-loaded on the boat, and Billy at once ran down to this pen, which
-was about a block away.  His heart beat high with hope as he neared
-it, and when he came close up to the bars he began to "baah" as loud
-as he could.
-
-From inside the pen came an answering bleat.  Billy's mother
-was there and she had recognized his voice!  She crowded close up
-to the bars and soon she and Billy were affectionately rubbing noses
-through the little spaces between the boards and telling each other
-all that had happened to them since they had become separated.
-How Billy did wish that he could get inside the pen and go to
-America with her!  He trotted
-around and around the high
-fence trying to find a
-weak place where he
-could break in, but
-the pen was built
-strong enough to make
-all such trials useless,
-so after every round
-Billy would have to come back to where his mother stood waiting
-and tell her of his failure.  After he had made a third trial and
-came back up to her the wise old goat struck a happy idea.
-
-"Just stand where you are, Billy," she said, "and by-and-by
-maybe one of the drivers will come this way and think that you
-belong in here with us.  Then he will let you in and we will go on
-board together."
-
-She had scarcely more than finished speaking when the lash of
-a sharp whip that had whizzed through the air hit Billy on the
-flank.  Looking up, he saw a young man opening a gate for him to
-be driven through.  The young man had no whip, however, so
-Billy turned in the other direction to see where the stinging blow
-had come from.  Standing only a few feet away from him was a
-short, wide man with a whip in his hand, and Billy started for him
-with a snort.
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-   The lash of a sharp whip.
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-"A thousand lightnings yet again!" exclaimed the fat man, who
-was none other than our old friend and Billy's old enemy, Hans Zug.
-
-Hans knew better this time than to run when he had a way so
-much easier to escape.  With all the speed that his pudgy body
-would let him have he climbed the bars of a high pen just in time to
-escape the hard bump that Billy jumped up to give him.  Sitting
-on the top bar, Hans whirled his whip around his head and lashed
-Billy across the back.  Wild with rage, Billy tried to reach his
-enemy, but he could not jump high enough, and Hans, laughing
-till he shook like a bowl of jelly, reached down and lashed Billy
-once more.  Feeling that with all his strength he certainly ought to
-jump high enough to reach his tormentor, Billy tried to leap again
-and again, but every time all he got for his pains was a whack with
-the long whip.
-
-At last, however, Hans made his big mistake.  After whipping
-poor Billy until he was tired, Hans laughed so heartily that he fell
-backwards off the fence, and you'd better believe that Billy's mother
-made him welcome.  She met him with her hard head while he was
-on the way down.  Hans dropped his whip and grabbed for dear
-life at the fence, and he caught hold with both hands just at the
-right height to make a good mark for Billy's mother.  That strong
-and sturdy old goat bumped him twice for every lash that he had
-given Billy, and every time she bumped him, Hans Zug grunted and
-yelled.  He clawed his feet desperately to get a foothold on the bars
-to climb up, but every time he would get one foot placed Billy's
-mother would give him another terrific bump and he would lose
-his footing.
-
-Billy, on the outside, ran backward and forward, hoping for
-Hans to get to the top and fall over on his side of the fence, and
-poor Hans was in an awful predicament.  At last, seeing that Hans'
-comical struggles were not going to put him over where Billy could
-get at him, that anxious youngster ran to where the young man was
-still holding the gate open a little way, and ran inside, upon which
-the gate closed sharply behind him.  He made his way rapidly
-among the other goats and quickly ran up beside his mother.  He
-watched her motion, jumping when she jumped, and they both butted
-Hans together so hard that, with a mighty grunt, he went way up in
-the air, both his feet landing at once on a bar higher than the one he
-had been trying to catch.
-
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-
-   They both butted Hans.
-
-Billy and his mother both laughed, but
-they were so delighted and so excited that
-the next time they tried to bump Hans their
-horns clashed, they stumbled and fell
-back, and in that moment Hans
-Zug climbed up out of reach.
-
-When he got to the top of the fence he lay down straddle
-of it, clinging with both hands and feet to the topmost bars for
-safety.
-
-"Hasenpfeffer and pretzels!" groaned poor Hans, panting for
-breath, while the big drops of sweat rolled off his cheeks.
-"Thunderclaps and sunstrokes!  Oh, my poor trousers!"
-
-He had good reason to say that last, for the sharp horns of the
-two goats had ripped his trousers' legs until they were in shreds, and
-there were some sharp red marks on his legs, too.  Billy Mischief
-and his mother only capered in joy.  What did they care about poor
-Hans trying to get his breath on top of the fence?  They were
-together, and together they were going to America!
-
-It was not long until the gate of the pen was opened and all the
-goats were driven out through a fenced runway across a fenced
-gangplank and through a wide, dark doorway into the hold of the cattle
-ship.  Billy and his mother found themselves in a long, low
-compartment, dimly lighted by little round windows close under the
-ceiling.  The goats were driven up to the forward end of the boat
-and put on both sides of the center aisle, behind strong, high bars.
-By this arrangement Billy and his mother were separated, in spite of
-all they could do to keep together, and could only stand close to the
-bars looking sorrowfully at each other across the aisle.  They soon
-quit this, however, because of a new interest.  Some surprising
-passengers came to join them.  First, six big camels were driven in,
-two by two, and fenced off next to the goats; then a herd of small
-elephants followed these and then came a vast number, of snarling,
-growling animals in strong cages; lions and tigers and other fierce
-wild beasts.  An American circus that had been traveling in Europe
-was on its way back home.
-
-At last the ship was loaded and began to move out of its slip
-toward the ocean.  The wild animals had been nervous and noisy
-before, but as soon as the ship began to move they became still
-more excited.  The elephants trumpeted, the tigers snarled, the
-hyenas set up their screeching cry, the lions roared.  It was a perfect
-pandemonium of shrieks and howls and yells, and for the first time
-in his life Billy trembled with fear.  It was not for long, however.
-Billy was a brave goat and a smart goat, and he knew that so long
-as those fierce animals stayed in their cages they could not hurt
-anything.  The only thing that bothered him was that he remembered
-how he had broken out of his own crate in the railroad train.
-
-This was the worst trip Billy ever made.  The animals were
-never quiet for more than a minute at a time.  There would be a lull
-when none of them would make any noise, and Billy would lie down,
-hoping for a moment of rest.  All at once some animal would grunt,
-the next one would grumble, the next one would growl, the next
-one would snarl, and by that time they would all be at it; then
-suddenly the hyenas would begin.  Then one of the fiercer animals
-would begin to roar and the old hubbub would begin all over again,
-winding up always with the lions' deep and terrifying "Hough!
-Hough!  Hough!"
-
-Billy got tired of it by-and-by, and thought that he would like
-to go away into some quiet corner and rest.  A great many of the
-goats had been thinking the same thing, and one after another they
-had been trying the stout boards, some of them attempting to push
-them out or break them and some trying to pry them loose with their
-stout horns.  None of them, however, had the patience and strength
-and determination of Billy, and at last, down in one corner, he found
-a board that did not seem so strongly fastened as the others, and on
-this board he began prying cautiously with his horns.  Billy would
-pry carefully until he was tired, then lie down and rest a while,
-then go at it again.  For nearly an hour he worked at it and at last
-he was rewarded by having the board come loose.  He squeezed out
-through it and the board sprang back into place.  Another goat
-tried to follow but he did not know the trick, and in place of pulling
-with his horns, pressed against the board, so Billy was the only one
-to get loose.
-
-Billy trotted between the long rows of animals, being very careful
-to keep in the exact center of the aisle and as far away from all
-of them as he could.  One of the elephants reached out his long trunk
-and caught Billy by the tail, but it was only a playful nip, and, after
-jerking Billy back a little piece, the elephant let him go.  Billy
-looked around at the big gray beast and saw by his twinkling eyes
-that it was only in fun, so, kicking up his heels, he trotted on with a
-friendly "baah!"  The lions and tigers and the leopards snarled
-and howled at him as he went past, while the hyenas laughed—if
-the terrible noise they make can be called laughing.
-
-.. _`One of the elephants reached out his long trunk.`:
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-
-   One of the elephants reached out his long trunk.
-
-Down toward the middle of the ship was a steep stairway up to
-an open doorway that led out on the deck, and up this Billy climbed
-with ease.  It was delightful, after that close, stuffy place, to stand
-on the cool, breeze-swept deck.  The
-steamer was making good headway
-now and all around was the
-ocean; the shore was only a
-low, hazy line, away out
-there at the edge of the
-water.  Billy was interested in
-the gaily colored circus
-wagons, some
-of which, crowded out of the lower hold, were grouped on the big,
-bare after-deck, and Billy did not notice, until up very close to him,
-that a big, fat man was leaning over the rail.  It was Hans Zug,
-and although the ship was riding easy and the ocean was very calm,
-Hans was already beginning to feel very sorry that he had not staid
-on solid land.
-
-"Ach, I am so sick!" groaned poor Hans.  "I wish I could die,
-yet!  I should feel me so much better!"
-
-"Now it would be a kindness to cheer Hans up a little bit and
-make him forget his misery," thought Billy.  Lowering his head
-and backing off a little way, he gave a run and bumped Hans a good
-one which he felt he still owed him for the whipping of the morning.
-He struck harder than he knew, and Hans, a big part of his heavy
-body already lying far out over the rail, got such a boost that he
-lost his balance and went bumping down the side of the ship into the
-water.
-
-"Man overboard!" shouted the first mate, who was up on the
-bridge, and immediately the ship was in great commotion.  Sailors
-came tumbling up out of another stairway and Billy thought it was
-time for him to make himself scarce.  He did not care to go back
-into the hold, so he ran in among the circus wagons and hid.  The
-ship stopped and turned round.  A small boat was hastily lowered
-and the sailors in it began rowing like mad to where Hans had gone
-down.  Poor Hans did not know how to swim, but when a boy he
-had learned to float, and now, turning on his back, he kept his hands
-down to his sides and his face turned up.  When the sailors got there
-with the row boat his fat round face was bobbing along above the
-little waves like a pumpkin in a pond.
-
-"Ach, those dear mountains at home!" wept Hans, when they
-pulled him into the boat.  "How I should wish I was back in Switzerland
-again.  I said it that I wanted to die, but it iss not, aindt it?
-Thank you, gentlemens!  Thank you!"
-
-A little rope ladder was let down and Hans, all dripping, his
-clothes clinging around him and making him look like a wet
-balloon, climbed up on the deck.
-
-"Where is that fire and brimstone goat?" he cried, having now
-had time to get over his fright and his seasickness enough to be
-angry.  "When I find him I throw him in all the ocean what iss!
-Yes!"
-
-Billy kept as still as he could, but one of the sailors saw his stubby
-tail and pointed him out.  Then the chase began.  Billy dashed
-around and around the deck with Hans and the sailors close after
-him, and at last, when they were almost upon him, he came to the
-open door of the hold.  Seeing no other way to escape, he was about
-to dash down this and had already placed his forefeet on the topmost
-stair, when he saw two great greenish-yellow eyes close to him,
-staring up at him out of the dimness.  One of the tigers had broken
-loose from his cage and had come slinking up the stairs, and Billy
-stood face to face with him!
-
-
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-   AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE TIGER
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-Billy felt his heart beat hard and fast, and for a moment
-his knees trembled under him.  He backed slowly up
-to the solid deck and the great flaming eyes slowly crept
-up after him.  Billy still backed away.  The men who
-had been chasing him were now very close, but one of them saw the
-tiger's head coming up on the deck, and he yelled to the others, who
-immediately pressed back.  As soon as he felt the firm deck floor
-under him and could see the animal's head as well as his eyes, Billy
-felt his courage coming back to him.  He knew that he had to
-stand and fight.  He felt that he could never run fast enough to get
-away from this powerful animal, and that before he could even
-turn and start to run the tiger would be upon him.
-
-Slowly Billy backed away with his sharp horns lowered, and
-slowly the tiger came out on the deck, crouched down until his body
-almost touched the boards, his tail, full of hard muscles, waving
-slowly like a red and yellow snake.  The men were panic-stricken and
-scattered in all directions, seeking places of safety wherever they
-could find them.  Poor Hans Zug was the slowest of all.  In his
-fright he stumbled over his own feet and fell three times to his hands
-and knees in trying to get away, and then he tried to hide himself
-behind a slim iron rod that ran up from the deck to the bridge, for he
-was too much paralyzed with fear to pursue his hunt any further for
-some safe hiding-place.
-
-The tiger was not in a very big hurry about making his spring.
-He did not like the looks of Billy's horns, although he knew that
-he was much stronger and more powerful than the little white goat.
-Still they came on, Billy backing away and the tiger creeping
-toward him until they were almost where Hans Zug stood trembling
-so hard that his teeth chattered.  Suddenly the tiger, with a swift
-spring, went up in the air, intending to jump clear over Billy's long
-horns and land upon his back, but Billy, himself as watchful and as
-careful as the tiger had been, sprang aside just as the tiger jumped,
-jerking his head sharply upward as the tiger went over him.  One
-of his horns caught in the tiger's under side and ripped a big gash
-in him.  Billy immediately sprang in the other direction, and the
-tiger, now fiercer than ever, wheeled quickly.  This time his sharp
-claw caught Billy's shoulder as Billy jumped aside, tearing a big
-patch of Billy's hide loose.  The pain staggered Billy and made him
-feel faint, but he knew it would never do to give up.  The animal
-men now came running up from the rear hold, where some of the
-other animals were being fed, and one of them had a pistol, but the
-two animals were jumping about so swiftly that he could not be sure
-of shooting the tiger without shooting Billy, so he waited to see how
-the fight would turn out.
-
-Time after time the tiger tried to get hold of Billy, but the goat
-was too quick for him, though each time they met one or the other
-of them got a mark.  At last Billy felt that he was nearly whipped.
-The two animals were now facing each other for another spring.
-The tiger, too, was suffering from the last hook that Billy had given
-him but he was fresher than the goat.  Billy swayed on his feet.
-The light seemed to turn into darkness before his eyes and he felt
-as if he were sinking down, down on a soft bed, but he kept his head
-bent in the tiger's direction.  He felt, rather than saw, the tiger
-spring once more, and in spite of his weakened condition he braced
-himself up and gave one more sharp, hard toss of his strong neck.
-His horn caught the tiger right behind the front shoulder blade and
-pressed deeply in.  This time he had found a vital spot.  The tiger
-rolled over on his side, and, after a quiver or two, lay still.  He
-was dead, but Billy did not know it, for the brave little goat had
-sunk to the floor with the tiger and lay as motionless as his dead
-enemy.  The animal men came running up first, the one with the
-revolver in front of the others.  Holding his revolver pointed
-straight to where he knew it would reach the animal's heart, he
-approached as slowly and cautiously as a cat creeping up to a mouse
-hole, felt the tiger's side and pronounced him really dead.  Two of
-the men dragged the tiger away and the others crowded around the
-poor goat.  At first they thought that he too was dead, but when they
-examined him they found that his heart was still beating slowly.
-One of them ran to bring water and another to get bandages.
-
-When Billy woke up his wounds had been nicely washed, ointment
-had been applied to them, and bandages were carefully bound
-over them.  The men were patting him gently and saying what a
-fine, brave goat he was and what a splendid fight he had made of it,
-and one big gruff voice, which Billy found out afterwards belonged
-to the captain, said:
-
-"Well, this goat is not to be tied up any more.  He shall have
-the freedom of the ship."
-
-Billy moved his legs feebly and tried to get up, but not feeling
-quite strong enough yet, he sank back and found that his head was
-lying on somebody's knee.  And now came the biggest surprise of all,
-for when Billy looked up to see who it was, here it was Hans Zug who
-was holding him!
-
-"Ach, such a fine little goat, yet," Hans was saying, patting
-Billy's neck gently, while the great tears rolled down his round
-cheeks.  "Such a brave little goat, yet.  Thunder weather!  He can
-butt me overboard once again if he should to like it!  Aindt it?"
-
-.. _`"WELL, OLD FELLOW, IF BROKEN BONES ARE ALL, WE CAN FIX THOSE."`:
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-   :align: center
-   :alt: "WELL, OLD FELLOW, IF BROKEN BONES ARE ALL, WE CAN FIX THOSE."
-
-   "WELL, OLD FELLOW, IF BROKEN BONES ARE ALL, WE CAN FIX THOSE."
-
-Billy was the hero of the ship.  It did not take him long to
-get well, and on the third day he was trotting around the deck as
-unconcerned as if he had never had a fight in his life.  His
-bandages were off and only a little, red-edged scar on his shoulder
-remained to show how bravely he had fought the tiger.  Hans Zug
-never was through praising him, but nevertheless, every time he
-went to speak to Billy he came toward him from behind, for Billy
-still had a way of shaking his head at him that made Hans feel like
-climbing a ladder.  On the first day that he could go around
-unbandaged, nobody seemed to be able to pat Billy enough, but, true
-to his name, Billy could not long stay out of mischief.
-
-Soon tiring of pacing the long decks, he went below in the cook's
-galley and began to hunt for dainties.  He had learned by this time
-that people were very curious about things to eat.  When they saw
-a goat helping himself, something was almost sure to happen to the
-goat and he could not understand it.  You see, he could not know
-that everything belonged to somebody.  All that he knew about it
-was that if you saw anything you wanted, and was lucky enough or
-strong enough or quick enough to get it, it was all right.
-Accordingly, he watched the cook, and when the cook's back was turned
-Billy grabbed a fine, big bunch of celery and trotted off with it.
-When he got in a dark corner he ate it and it was so fine that he
-wanted more.  He went back into the cook's galley but could not
-see any.  Then he went into a little, dark room that opened into it
-and found himself in a place full of the nicest things to eat he had
-ever seen in one pile.  There were carrots and radishes and peas and
-fine, crisp, tender lettuce and all sorts of green stuff which had been
-brought aboard for the captain's table.  Billy ate until he could
-hold no more, and then he happened to think that his mother would
-like some of that nice celery, so he picked out an extra fine bunch and
-trotted off with it.  No one saw him and he made his way down into
-the hold where his mother was crowded in the pen with the other
-goats.  He gave her the celery and while she was eating it he told
-her all that had happened to him and how much the ship's crew
-thought of him, and how even Hans Zug had become his friend.
-
-"My, that was fine!" said his mother as she finished the last of
-me celery.  "It is the nicest thing I have had to eat since we left
-home."
-
-"Ho!" said Billy.  "That is nothing.  We cabin passengers
-have some of the finest things in the world to eat.  What you need
-now is a bunch of tender lettuce to finish off with, and I'll go get
-you some," and he hurried off, leaving his mother very proud of his
-rise in the world.
-
-Billy trotted boldly through the cook's galley, and the cook,
-who knew all about Billy's fight, tossed him some carrot tops as he
-passed.  Billy was not at all hungry, but he ate the carrot tops just
-out of politeness, then he went on into the store room and picked
-out a nice big head of lettuce for his mother.  He was just going
-out of the cook's galley with it when the cook turned round and saw
-him.  Right away the cook forgot what a hero Billy was, and angry
-that Billy had taken some of his precious lettuce, cried:
-
-"Hey!  Drop that, you bobtailed thief!" and threw a skillet at
-Billy.  It hit the goat in the side with a thump, but Billy never
-stopped.  He only ran on until he had gained the hold where his
-mother was and had given the nice, cool lettuce to her, when he
-turned round to hurry away.
-
-.. _`Threw a skillet at Billy.`:
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-   :alt: Threw a skillet at Billy.
-
-   Threw a skillet at Billy.
-
-"Wait a minute, Billy!" she called after him.  "I want to talk
-to you."
-
-"I haven't got time," Billy called back over his shoulder.  "I've
-got a little business with the cook."
-
-When Billy got back into the cook's galley, the cook was over
-in a corner reaching up for some baking powder that he kept on a
-high shelf.  He was stretched out just right for a good bump and
-Billy gave it to him.
-
-"Great Scott!" cried the cook, and jumped up until his head
-bumped the shelf.  He quickly turned around but Billy had backed
-off and now jumped for him again.  This time the man put out his
-hands and caught Billy by the horns firmly enough to keep the bump
-Billy gave him in front from smashing him.  Billy, however, jerked
-away and backed off for another bump, and the man, jumping up,
-grabbed the shelf with the foolish notion of climbing up out of range.
-He could not have been in a better position for another bump
-behind, so Billy gave him that one and he dropped loose from the shelf,
-yelling for help with all his might.  In dropping, he turned around,
-and this time Billy landed with all his weight right in the middle of
-the man's appetite.
-
-By this time the cook had lost his head so that all he could do
-was to spread his arms and legs like an old-fashioned, jointed doll
-and yell for help.  Several men came running down the ladder and
-the foremost one was Hans Zug with his whip.  Hans had just been
-over to straighten out a fight in the goats' pen, and when he saw
-one of his goats butting the cook, he never stopped to think that it
-was the same Billy he had been petting and praising, so he hauled
-off and gave Billy a mighty slash with his sharp leather whip.  Billy
-got through with the cook in a hurry!
-
-So Hans Zug, who had been following him around and patting
-him on the back and calling him nice goat and fine goat and brave
-goat, was ready to start in again, was he?  Well, Billy would show
-him!  Like a flash he wheeled and was after Hans.
-
-"Donnervetter!" cried Hans, and turned to run.
-
-The men who had followed him down the steps were in the way,
-however, and Hans ran square into them.  A second later Billy ran
-into Hans with enough force to send him sprawling among the men,
-and four or five of them went to the floor grunting, with Hans on
-top.  Before Billy could back off for another stroke Hans turned
-quickly and was just in time to grab Billy by the fore legs.  At the
-same moment the cook caught Billy by the hind legs, and these two
-carried him upstairs to the deck.
-
-"Over he goes," yelled the angry cook.
-
-"Sure!" said Hans.  "He done it to me.  Ein! swei! drei!"
-
-As Hans counted his one, two, three in German, they gave three
-mighty swings, and with the last one they let go.
-
-Splash! went Billy into the sea!
-
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-Poor Billy!  Once more he had lost his mother!  He
-looked for the ship to turn round and send out a boat
-as it had done when Hans fell overboard, but it did
-nothing of the sort.  Instead, it steamed straight ahead.
-In the excitement nobody had noticed that Billy had been thrown
-into the water.
-
-The cook got a life preserver and threw it over after Billy,
-thinking it a good joke, then the cook went below and Hans stood at
-the stern railing shaking his fist at the poor goat.  Billy swam as
-long and as hard after the boat as he could, but it was no use; he
-could not begin to keep up with its great speed.  Presently,
-however, he came to where the life preserver floated.  It was a big
-circular one and Billy put his front paws upon it.  His weight made it
-tip on edge and Billy was surprised and delighted to find that it held
-him up in the water, making the work of swimming much easier.
-In trying to get his legs further into it he slipped once or twice, but
-finally in his struggles his head and horns went through it, and,
-after swimming and wriggling a little bit, he got his front shoulders
-through and there it clung round him, holding him up splendidly.
-It was too small to pass backwards over his body, and it could not
-get off over his head on account of Billy's horns.
-
-It was a lucky thing for Billy that this happened, for that night
-a terrific storm came up.  The wind shrieked and howled, the
-lightnings glared, the thunders rolled, and great foam-capped waves,
-some of them nearly as high as a house, broke over Billy, one after
-another, nearly drowning him and sometimes almost crushing him
-by their weight.
-
-In all his life Billy had never passed such a terrific night as
-this, but through it all the big life preserver held him up and
-carried him safely through.  Many times there seemed to come a lull
-in the storm and Billy began to breathe easier, thinking that he would
-get a little rest, but the storm would break out again with new fury
-each time, until, when morning came, the poor goat was battered
-and bruised and nearly dead.  With the dawn, however, the storm
-calmed down.  The skies began to clear, the waves grew smaller,
-and the wind, shifting by-and-by to the opposite direction from that
-in which it had been blowing all night, beat back the waves and
-smoothed them down until by ten o'clock the ocean was quiet, only
-ruffled by gentle swells over which Billy and his life preserver
-bobbed in comfort, although he was very tired and beginning to
-get hungry.
-
-Ever since the sky had cleared he had seen smoke away off
-where sea and sky seemed to join.  Billy
-knew what smoke meant.  Wherever
-there was smoke there were people, and
-wherever there were people there was
-food, so he started toward it, swimming
-a little bit and resting a long while
-between times.  The smoke grew blacker
-and presently he saw a little speck under
-the smoke.  It grew larger and larger,
-and by-and-by he was able to make out
-that it was a big ship coming in his
-direction.  Poor Billy swam harder than
-ever then, and fortunately for him the
-ship was coming almost straight toward
-him.  Still more fortunately, the
-captain, sweeping the sea with his
-glass, made out the life preserver
-holding up something white, and
-immediately thought it must be a
-woman in a white dress.  He
-altered the direction of the ship slightly
-so that it came nearer to Billy, and had
-ordered a boat to be lowered before he
-made out that it was only a goat, otherwise he might have passed on
-by.  The boat, however, was already lowered, so he let it go.
-
-.. _`The ship was coming almost straight toward him.`:
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-
-   The ship was coming almost straight toward him.
-
-The ship was a big passenger steamer, and by this time scores of
-passengers were thronging to the rails to see what the excitement was
-all about, and when the boat was drawn up, Billy, a comical looking
-sight with his big life preserver around him, was placed on the deck.
-A boy among the passengers at once ran forward with a shout.
-
-"Why, it's my Billy goat!" he cried.  "Papa, come and look!
-See the singe marks on his back?"
-
-Billy "baahed" joyfully.  He rather liked Frank and was very
-glad that he had found a friend.  The captain himself, interested and
-amused, had joined the crowd by this time.
-
-"Your goat?" he asked Frank, in amazement.  "Do you always
-keep your goats out at sea in life preservers?"
-
-"Not always," laughed Frank.  "In fact, this is the only goat I
-have.  We lost him in Havre.  The last I saw of him he was tied
-to the back of our carriage with a rope.  When we got down to the
-wharf he was gone.  Then we went down to Cherbourg, where papa
-had some business, caught your ship the next day and here we are.
-How Billy ever got here from Havre, I don't know, but here he is
-and he's my goat."
-
-"Well, according to the law of the sea," said the captain with
-a twinkle in his eye, "he is salvage now and belongs to the men there
-who picked him up.  Of course I have a share in the salvage too, but
-I'll take a cigar for mine."
-
-Mr. Brown, laughing, gave him the cigar and then gave the
-sailors some money, and Billy was taken below to a large, white,
-clean room where some fine blooded horses were hitched in roomy
-stalls.  Here he was given a big bowl of warm milk and a bed of
-clean straw, both of which he was very glad to get.  As soon as he
-had drunk the bowl of milk, he felt so good and warm that he lay
-down and went sound asleep.
-
-When Billy woke up he saw something that made him gasp
-with surprise, and at first he thought he must be dreaming.  Right
-beside him, sleeping peacefully, an empty bowl that had contained
-milk just in front of it, lay another goat.  It was his mother!  Billy
-was so overjoyed that he did not know what to do.  He licked her
-face gently and when she opened her eyes he capered around till the
-horses in the stalls near by thought that he must have gone crazy.
-Billy's mother was no less happy and when they had calmed down
-Billy told her how Hans Zug had thrown him overboard, how he had
-suffered through the storm and how the ship had picked him up.
-
-"You were lucky, I guess, that he threw you over," said his
-mother.  "We got into that same terrible storm and our ship struck
-upon the rocks and broke to pieces.  I do not know what became
-of the other goats or of Hans Zug.  Of course all the circus animals
-in the cages went down.  I was swimming about in the water when
-some sailors in a boat grabbed me and took me with them.  They
-said that they had not had time to get provisions and that they might
-have to eat me.  I would have jumped overboard when I heard this
-but they had already forced me under one of the seats in such a way
-that I could not scramble out.  The storm was still upon us and the
-waves spun us around like a top, and two or three times we thought
-we were gone.  By morning, however, the storm calmed down and
-we were safe, although some of the men had been swept overboard by
-the big waves that broke over us.  All day long we drifted about.
-One of the men had brought along a box of crackers and another
-one had got some dried beef.  A keg of water was already in the boat
-so that there was nearly enough for everybody for breakfast, and
-when the noonday meal came, one of the men wanted to kill me, but
-the others would not let him.  They wanted to save me, they said,
-until the next day.  It was nearly dusk when this ship saw us and
-stopped to take us on board.  If this ship had missed us I suppose
-that to-night would have been my last."
-
-Billy shuddered.
-
-"Well," said he, "at any rate we are together again, and this time
-I suppose that we will stay together.  If you are rested enough
-come on and let us look around the ship."
-
-First the two goats trotted side by side past the big clean stalls
-of the horses and all around the room they were in, then they made
-their way to the stairway that led up to the deck.  They were about
-to climb this when Billy spied the open door of a little closet, scarcely
-large enough to put his head in.  Full of curiosity, he went up to
-it and stuck his nose inside.
-
-"Oh, come here, mother!" he suddenly cried.  "Here is a rope
-with a very strange taste.  I had some of it in a big hotel in Bern
-and I did not care for it very much, but it has such a queer taste that
-you must eat some of it."
-
-The rope Billy meant was not exactly like the ones he had
-chewed in Bern, for those were single big wires with a covering to
-keep them from touching.  This rope in the little closet was not a
-solid one but was a big bundle of tiny wires, each one covered with
-a queer tasting sheath.  The wires ran from the pilot's room and the
-captain's room to the engineer's room and to the other working
-rooms of the ship, and, by the use of little push buttons were
-intended to direct the movements of the mighty floating palace.
-
-"Why, this is quite a treat," said Billy's mother, taking a big
-bundle of the wires in her mouth.  Another little closet just like this
-one stood alongside of it and Billy saw that the door of this was
-also slightly ajar.  He pushed it open with his nose, and inside he
-found another bundle of wires.  These ran from the passengers'
-cabins to the steward's cabin, and the electrician had just been fixing
-them, carelessly leaving the doors unfastened.
-
-"Why, here's another bundle!  I'll try some of them myself,"
-remarked Billy, so both the goats got to work at once.
-
-Billy's mother had only chewed at her rope of wires a little
-while when the coverings began to come off and the wires to touch.
-Instantly things began to happen.  The first wires that touched gave
-the engineer a signal to stop and instantly the mighty ship began to
-slow up.  Within a short time it had come almost to a standstill and
-the first mate, up in the pilot room, immediately took down his
-telephone and called up the engineer.
-
-"What's the matter?" he asked.
-
-"Nothing, sir," said the engineer.  "You gave the signal to stop
-and we stopped."
-
-"I did no such thing," said the mate.  "At any rate, start up
-again and we'll investigate."
-
-Just then came another signal, and with a great jangling of
-bells the big engines began to turn and the ship wheeled square
-around.  There was another jangling of bells, and, shaking with
-the force of the mighty engines, the ship began to pick up speed,
-headed straight back for France.  Again the first mate called up the
-engineer.
-
-"What are you doing?" he asked.  "Are you crazy?  Why have
-you tacked about?"
-
-"Had orders, sir," said the engineer.
-
-"You lay her northwest by north at once.  Put the second
-engineer in charge and report to me immediately."
-
-"Aye, aye, sir," said the engineer and started up to present
-himself to the first mate.
-
-The ship was swung back on her proper course and had gone
-straight a little way, when all at once the whistles began to blow and
-bells to ring, and with this the captain came running up to the pilot
-room.  The first mate already had his telephone off the hook and
-was screaming down to the engineer.
-
-"What are you doing, sir?" he demanded.  "I thought I told
-you to report to me at once!"
-
-"This is the second engineer, sir," repeated the voice.  "The
-chief engineer has just gone up to report to you, sir."
-
-"Well, why did you blow a landing whistle out here in mid-ocean?
-Can't you obey orders?  Are you crazy, too?  Are you all crazy?"
-
-"I had the signal and obeyed orders, sir," said the second engineer.
-
-By that time the captain came bursting into the pilot room,
-while Billy Mischief and his mother were chewing wires.
-
-"Are you a plum idiot?" demanded the captain.  "Can't you
-be left in charge of this ship?  Have you been drinking?  First you
-stopped the ship, then you put back for France, then you turn again,
-and now you blow a landing whistle."
-
-At that moment the fog horn began to sound, although the
-sea was almost as bright as day with a round moon shining
-overhead and the stars studded thick in the sky.
-
-The captain himself grabbed the telephone.
-
-"I want to know who's doing all this!" he demanded.  "Who's
-in charge there?"
-
-"I am, sir; the second engineer," answered the voice.
-
-"Put your assistant in charge and report to me in the pilot room
-at once."
-
-Just then the chief engineer came in.
-
-"What does all this mean?" roared the captain.
-
-"I don't know, sir," said the engineer.  "I got signals to stop,
-then to put about, then to come back on the course, all of which I
-did."
-
-"I don't want you to attempt to put this on to me," said the
-mate.  "I haven't touched a button for an hour.  There has been
-no necessity.  We have been going straight on our course."
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-
-All this while the steward had been going nearly crazy.  The
-bells were ringing from every cabin on the ship, and the waiters were
-running about the place like mad.  First one bell, then another
-would ring, and always when the waiters went to those cabins they
-were told that nothing was wanted and were abused for waking
-people up.  That part of it was Billy Mischief's work and he did
-as much to put the ship in an uproar as had his mother.  The sound
-of the fog horn and the stopping and starting of the ship, the
-whistling and the clanging of the bells, kept everybody awake that had
-been awakened by the waiters, and hastily throwing on clothing, the
-passengers began to hurry out on to the decks to find out what was
-the matter.
-
-The steward came hunting the captain, right after the second
-engineer.
-
-"This ship is bewitched," he cried, wringing his hands, and he
-told the captain of all the trouble he was having with false alarms.
-
-Everybody looked at everybody else as if they thought that the
-others had all better be in the asylum, and it was just at that moment
-that Billy Mischief, down in the hold, turned to his mother and
-said:
-
-"Oh, come on!  I don't like this stuff very well, anyhow," and
-leaving the little closets to themselves, they trotted innocently
-upstairs not knowing all the trouble they had made.
-
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-Not stopping on the lower deck, they went on up until
-they reached the main saloon deck.  It was ever so much
-wider and nicer than the deck of the cattle ship, and just
-now it was crowded with passengers who had hastily
-dressed themselves and had come out on deck to see what was the
-matter with the ship and its queer actions.
-
-"Oh, there's my goat!" said a boy who was standing at the rail
-just at the head of the stairway.
-
-It was Frank Brown and, walking up to Billy, he patted him on
-the neck.  A bright faced young man who was with Frank also
-stooped over and patted Billy.
-
-"Whose goat is this other one?" he asked, turning to pat Billy's
-mother, who, being jealous like most animals, crowded up to get
-her share of the attention.
-
-"I don't know," said Frank.  "It was picked up from a wreck;
-but the two goats seem to be very chummy."
-
-Frank was looking along the deck at the long row of excitable
-passengers, and suddenly he began to laugh.
-
-"I wish we could play some sort of a trick on all these people,"
-he said.
-
-The young man's face lit up with a smile as he gazed at the
-nervous and worried looking passengers, then all at once he laughed
-aloud.
-
-"I've got it!" he cried.  "Bring your goats and come into my
-cabin quickly.  It's just inside here."
-
-So Billy, willingly enough, was led by the horns into the young
-man's cabin, and his mother followed after.  As soon as they had
-reached the cabin the young man rang the bell, and when the waiter
-came to him the young man gave him a check and sent him after a
-trunk which was soon brought up.  Opening it, the young man took
-out an enormous dragon's head made of papier maché and painted
-in bright colors.  It was a fierce looking head and almost filled the
-trunk.  It had a great, double row of gleaming white teeth, red lips,
-a red tongue that worked out and in, immense saucer-like eyes and
-winged ears, while a "scary" looking spine started from the top of
-its nose and arched high over its neck.  The balance of the trunk
-was filled with a long, thin, sack-like arrangement which was painted
-green and red and yellow, and which was to represent the dragon's
-body.
-
-"You know I told you," said the young man, "that I am the
-property man of a big spectacular show company, and this is a new
-dragon that I have just had made.  It is intended for men to get
-inside of to walk it across the stage.  We'll put the goats in it and
-start them along the deck, and then we'll see some fun."
-
-Neither Billy nor his mother wanted to get inside that strange
-looking thing, but the two boys suddenly slipped the big head over
-Billy and there was no way for him to get out.  Then, catching
-Billy's mother by the horns, they dragged her to the second slit and
-put her inside.  The young man quickly straightened up the ridges
-and the long, scalloped, folding side fins of the body, while Frank
-held the head tightly and let the goats prance inside.  The young man
-opened the door and looked out.  The passageway was clear and they
-soon gained the deck.  The young man lit a match and stooped down
-for a moment.  Instantly the big eyes were lit up with red.  Red
-flames came out of the tip of the tongue and smoke rolled out of the
-nostrils.
-
-They headed the dragon up the deck before anybody noticed it,
-and as soon as the goats were let go they started to run in their efforts
-to get away from this heavy, dark thing that surrounded them.  The
-young man put his hands to his mouth, and making a megaphone
-of them, gave a tremendous roar.  Instantly everybody looked, and
-when they saw this great, red-eyed and fire-breathing monster coming
-toward them there was a grand scamper.  A great many of the passengers
-thought that a sea serpent had got aboard and they did not
-care to see it any closer.  Away they went, making as much noise as
-a Sunday school picnic, with the fiery dragon right after them.
-Around and around the deck they chased and the two poor goats
-were as scared as any of the women on board.
-
-It had been twice around the deck when the red powder that the
-young man had lighted in its tongue began to die out, so the young
-man grabbed it just as it passed the place where they had started it
-off and, quickly turning it in toward his cabin, was struggling with
-the now thoroughly frightened goats.  He got the dragon safely into
-his room, but, as soon as it was lifted off of Billy and his mother,
-those frightened goats made a dash for the door and out on deck.
-Their only idea was to run as fast as they could to get away from
-that dreadful thing, so when the passengers saw them coming, they
-thought that some other sort of a monster was loose and they began
-to run again.  Some of the men stopped to see what it was, however,
-and more than one of them had his revolver in his hand ready to
-shoot.  One of them, in fact, had his finger on the trigger and was
-going to pull it when another man suddenly called out:
-
-"Wait a minute!  They're only goats."
-
-The men caught the goats as they were struggling to get through
-and the captain, who had been everywhere trying to stop the panic,
-now came up.  The second mate came up also, and when he saw the
-two goats he was very angry and called one of his men.
-
-"Here," said he, "take these animals down where they belong
-and tie them up with wires or chains so that they can't gnaw
-themselves loose.  If I see them again before we get to New York there's
-going to be trouble for somebody."
-
-So Billy and his mother, their fun all over, were taken back
-down in the hold and tied up tightly, and it was the last time they got
-loose until they landed in America.
-
-"At any rate," said Billy's mother, "we are together."
-
-"I don't know how we can stay together, though," said Billy,
-shaking his head.  "I belong to Frank Brown and, so far as I can
-tell, you don't belong to anybody.  If you only did, maybe
-Mr. Brown would buy you, although I don't believe he wants any more."
-
-And Billy was right about Mr. Brown's not wanting any more goats.
-
-The day they landed Frank Brown went to claim his goat.  Billy
-and his mother were still together, but as Frank was about to take
-Billy away a woe-begone looking little fat man came rushing up.
-
-"Those should been my goats yet!" he exclaimed.
-
-"Your goats?" said Mr. Brown, rather angrily.  "Why, man,
-that one with the singed spots on his back we have just brought over
-with us from France."
-
-"It makes me nothing out!" exclaimed the man.  "They should
-been my goats!  I know them both like it was mine own brother and
-sister, yes!  I know the biggest one by such a black spot on her
-forehead and the other one by such singed places like vat iss on his back.
-So!  I should bring them both over from Havre, and our ship got
-such a wreckness in the big thunder weather, and Ach, I could cry
-mit weeping.  My name is Hans Zug and I am a poor man.  Yes!
-I had more as two hundred goats and these two is all what I got
-now, and if you take them away I don't got any.  No!"
-
-One of the sailors from the cattleship who had been taken on
-board with Billy's mother came up just then and said that Hans
-was telling the truth.  Mr. Brown looked perplexed.
-
-"It's true," he said, "that we got this goat out of the ocean.  It
-is scarcely possible that two goats should be burned exactly alike and
-this one either slipped loose from our carriage in Havre or was taken
-away from us there by this man.  I have already paid twice for it;
-once in Europe, once on the ocean, and now I am expected to pay
-for him a third time in America.  Frank, get your goat and come on!"
-
-Poor Hans did not know what to say or do.  Mr. Brown was
-evidently rich and powerful and Hans was afraid he might get
-himself into trouble.  He looked so miserable, however, that
-Mr. Brown relented, and taking out his pocket-book, handed Hans some
-money.
-
-"Here," he said, "I'll buy this goat again and then I'll be
-tempted to hire somebody to hang it, only I'm afraid some butcher
-would sell it to me a fourth time for mutton."
-
-Frank giggled at this and his father, too, cleared up his anger
-in a laugh.  Then Billy, in spite of all his mother's bleatings, was
-led away from her.  Within an hour he was put in a baggage car
-of a train for the West where the Browns lived.  This time he was
-not crated, but was tied to a ring with a stout rope.
-
-Up to the time that the train began to start he struggled and
-pulled, hoping to get away and run back to join his mother, but it
-was no use.  The train pulled out, and every minute Billy was
-carried farther and farther away from the one goat in the world that
-was dear to him.  He was a very sad goat and he would have been
-sadder still if he had known that his real misfortunes had only begun.
-All through that afternoon he chewed at the stout rope, trying to
-get it loose, and all that night whenever he woke up he began to
-gnaw at it, not knowing, of course, how far he was being carried
-away, nor how impossible it would be for him ever to get back to
-New York, over hundreds of miles of ground, across rivers, through
-tunnels and over ferries, or even find his mother if he ever did reach
-New York City.
-
-By morning he had his rope nearly gnawed through.  Not long
-after daylight the train stopped at a little station and the baggage
-doors on both sides of the car were standing open when the train
-pulled out.  Billy gave a tug at his
-rope and then another one.  It came
-loose, and, giving a short run, he
-jumped out of the door.  The train by
-this time was going at a good
-speed, and Billy landed in the
-gravel of a steep embankment,
-rolling over and over.  After the train
-went on he lay quite still, for he
-had fainted.  Poor Billy had broken
-a leg.
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-   Poor Billy had broken a leg.
-
-After a long time he crawled
-painfully up to the country road
-that crossed the railroad track and
-led into the village they had just
-passed.  He dragged himself along
-this road
-quite a way
-toward the village,
-but the pain was
-too great for him
-to continue very
-far, so presently
-he crawled to the
-side of the road and lay down in the cool grass.  He tried to nibble
-a bit at this but he was too sick, and finally he stretched himself out
-and closed his eyes.  More and more, now, he missed his mother,
-and felt that if she could only be there to lick his wounds his leg
-would get well again, but now he felt that there was no hope for
-him.  All he could do was to close his eyes and die.
-
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-Whoa!" cried a brisk, cheery voice.
-
-Billy slowly opened his eyes.  There on the road
-above him a pretty Shetland pony stopped suddenly
-and shook his saucy looking head, while a boy a little
-bigger than Frank Brown jumped down from a little cart full of
-grass and ran to the pony's head.
-
-"Now stand still, Dandy, till we see whether our friend here by
-the roadside needs any help," went on the boy.  "It's a fine looking
-goat, Dandy, but he looks sick."
-
-Dandy danced his front feet up and down and rubbed his nose
-affectionately against the boy's neck, while a beautiful collie came
-rushing up and capered and danced around them both, giving little,
-short, sharp, playful barks.
-
-"Steady now, King, steady," said the boy.  "That's no way to
-make a noise when there are sick people around.  Behave yourself,"
-and patting the dog's silken coat with a hearty thump, he turned to
-see what he could do for Billy.
-
-The dog reached the goat first and Billy shivered as he felt the
-dog's muzzle touch him.  He jerked his head and began to gather
-his limbs to get up and defend himself, when the dog whined a little
-and he felt that the touch was a friendly one.
-
-"Why, you poor goat!" said the boy, as he saw the bruised and
-bleeding leg.  "I wonder how you ever broke such a pretty, fine
-limb as that.  Well, old fellow, if broken bones are all, we can fix
-those."
-
-He passed his hand gently down Billy's neck to his fore flanks,
-where it rested for a moment.  Billy felt better right away.  He
-liked this young fellow.  He had never heard a voice or felt a touch
-that seemed to do him so much good.  A tiny little stream ran across
-the road not far ahead, and, taking a bright little pail from his cart,
-the boy ran to this stream and came back with some water.  He
-carefully bathed Billy's leg with his handkerchief and then, wetting
-the handkerchief thoroughly, he tied it around Billy's leg.
-
-"That will do for a little bit," said the boy, "and now we will
-just take you right home and fix you up properly."
-
-He stooped down to pick Billy up, and Billy, just as the pony
-had done to the boy's neck, rested his nose affectionately on the boy's
-bare arm.  They were strong arms, too, and with but very little
-trouble they lifted Billy up and laid him in the cart on the bed of
-soft, springy grass, King barking joyous circles around them all the
-way.
-
-"It's lucky for you, old fellow," said the boy, as he gave Billy
-a light pat and climbed back to his seat, "that I happened to be
-out cutting some feed for my pets."
-
-The dog, King, sprang up on the seat beside the boy and sat
-there looking as grave as an owl.
-
-"Get up, you Dandy!" said the boy.
-
-The saucy little pony stopped to prance for just a minute to show
-how good he felt, and then away he darted.  The road was smooth,
-the little cart was supplied with good springs and the grass kept
-off the jar still more, so that the ride was a very easy one.  Just at
-the outskirts of the village the boy sprang down again and opened
-a wide gate.  Billy raised up his head a little to look after this
-splendid fellow.  He wore a gray sweater, a pair of overalls, and a straw
-hat, and he was in his bare feet.  His nose tilted up a little at the
-end and his face was all covered with freckles, but he was tall and
-straight, his yellow hair curled from under his hat and his blue eyes
-were bright and kind, and Billy thought he had never seen any human
-being in this world so fine and handsome.  As soon as the gate was
-opened, the busy little pony darted through it and, without a word
-from the boy, stopped until his driver could close the gate and take
-his place again.  Two other dogs came running down to meet them.
-
-"Hello, Curly!  Hello, Spot!" called the boy, and he patted
-each of the dogs on the head before he climbed back up on his seat
-and took the reins.
-
-Back a little way from the road sat a small, white house with
-green vines and bright red flowers clambering all over the wide
-front porch.  The ground in front of the house was glowing with
-flower beds; everything looked neat and clean, and as if happy,
-contented people lived there.  The road from the gate led right past this
-house, and back by the kitchen the boy stopped with a "Whoa!"  A
-pleasant looking woman came out of the kitchen door, and in her
-hands she held up a cooky.
-
-"Just out of the oven, Bobby boy," she said, and came up to the
-wagon to hand it to him.  He reached down and patted her cheek
-and with the same hand took the hot cooky.
-
-"Look in the wagon, mother," he said smiling.
-
-"Well, Bob Sanders!" she cried.  "Another animal!  I don't
-know what your father will say."
-
-"Oh, but look, mother!" said the boy, turning round to show her.
-"I picked him up at the side of the road and see, he has broken a
-leg."
-
-"Oh, the poor goat!" said Mrs. Sanders, her voice as full of
-sympathy as Bobby's own.  Billy liked her voice too.  The sound of
-it seemed to do him good in the same way that Bobby's voice had.
-"I'll go right in and get him some milk," she added.
-
-"No, I'd rather you wouldn't, mother," said Bobby.  "I'll give
-him a drink of water out at the barn, but I don't want him to eat
-anything just now.  I have got to set that leg and it's likely to be
-very painful for him.  If he ate anything it might make him very
-sick.  After it is all through, I'll make him a little mash and feed it
-to him."
-
-"All right, Bobby, you know best," said his mother, and she
-stood there watching them until Bobby and his wagon had disappeared
-through the gates of the barnyard and behind the barn.
-
-When Bobby jumped out of the wagon, chickens came squawking
-and running to him, and clustered around his feet so he could
-hardly walk without stepping on them; down from the gable of the
-barn whirred some pigeons, which circled about his head and one
-of them lit on each shoulder, while another one tumbled off in trying
-to get a foothold.  Bobby laughed, and, stooping down, stroked the
-feathers of some of the chickens and then he reached up and took
-one of the pigeons in each hand.
-
-"Go, Flash!  Go, Rocket," he called, pitching each one of them
-into the air as he spoke, and after circling about him they flew back
-to their perch under the eaves of the barn while Bobby unhitched
-Dandy.
-
-No sooner was that surprising pony unhitched than he ran back
-to the pump.  There was a little water standing in the bucket under
-the spout, but Dandy upset this at once, and then turned the bucket
-right side up again with his nose.  There was a leather loop nailed
-firmly to the pump handle and, gripping this with his teeth, Dandy
-jerked his head up and down until he had pumped a bucket of water,
-which he drank with great relish.  Then he trotted into the barn
-where Bobby presently carried the goat.
-
-He gave Billy a drink of cool, fresh water and then, after preparing
-splints and bandages and getting everything ready, he set the
-broken bone in Billy's leg with cool, firm hands.  Poor Billy!  It
-hurt him far worse than it had hurt to break his leg, but after Bobby
-had put some ointment on the leg and wrapped it up in soft bandages
-and had bound the stiff boards on it to keep it firm while the bone
-was healing, it felt a great deal better.  Billy's bed was made of
-some sweet smelling hay right in front of Dandy's stall, just where
-a cool breeze could blow across him, and after Bobby had gone away,
-Billy closed his eyes in comfort.  Next to being back on Farmer
-Klausen's farm with his own mother, this was the nicest place he had
-ever been in his life.
-
-After a long nap, Billy woke up to find Dandy clattering into his
-stall.
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-
-   After a long nap, Billy woke up.
-
-"Whew, but I'm hot!" said Dandy.  "How do you feel?"
-
-"Pretty good," said Billy, "only my leg does throb and hurt."
-
-"No doubt," replied Dandy.  "I know when Queen had her
-leg broken she told me how it hurt her.  You must get around and
-see Queen and her babies as soon as you are able, although I expect
-by that time they will be in here, tumbling around you.  They are
-the cutest little puppies I ever saw in my life."
-
-"I shall be glad to," said Billy, "but just
-now I'm only thinking about one thing.  I'm hungry."
-
-"That's good," laughed Dandy, "you'll get
-something to eat all
-right.  Nobody
-stays hungry around
-here.  Bobby will be here
-with something to eat
-soon.  He's the best
-boy in the world.  As soon as you get well enough, he'll teach you
-to do tricks."
-
-"Tricks?" said Billy in surprise.  "I never heard of them.
-What are they?"
-
-"Oh, you'll find out," said Dandy.  "I can do a few of them
-myself.  I can waltz on my hind legs, and stand on my head, and
-roll a barrel, and now I'm learning to stand on a globe and roll it
-backwards and forwards."
-
-"My, but you are smart!" said Billy.  "And does he ever whip
-you if you don't do them right?"
-
-Dandy laughed and tossed his head.
-
-"No indeed!" said he.  "Bobby never had a whip in his hand.
-We're all of us glad to do anything he tells us."
-
-"If you know how, stupid," croaked a new voice, and Billy
-looked up to see a tame black crow sitting in the window.
-
-"Stupid yourself, Tarwings," said the pony, but it was in a
-friendly tone.
-
-"You must have good times here," said Billy, sighing as he
-thought of all the places of trouble he had seen in his travels.
-
-"We do," replied Dandy.  "Of course it isn't all play.  Now I
-just came in from hoeing the corn."
-
-"You mean that Bobby hoed the corn while you pulled the hoe,"
-croaked the crow.  "Don't mind what he says, Mr. Goat.  He'll
-make you think that he does it all around here," and then, laughing
-hoarsely, the crow flapped his wings and flew away.
-
-Dandy laughed heartily.
-
-"He thinks he's a great mischief maker, but nobody gets angry
-at what he says.  He doesn't mean a bit of harm by it."
-
-Just then Bobby came in with a pail of warm mash for Billy.
-The goat hardly knew whether he liked it at the first taste, but as he
-ate more of it and felt it warming him up inside, he began to realize
-how good it was, and after he had eaten all that Bobby thought it
-wise for him to have just then, he lay very contented and lazy while
-Bobby rubbed Dandy's smooth coat with a cloth.
-
-Later in the evening a pretty, little red and white cow came into
-the barn and turned into her stall beside Dandy's.  She was properly
-introduced to Billy, and the crow made so much fun of their politeness
-that he laughed until he fell out of the window, where he lay
-on the hay with his legs sticking up until he was quite through
-cackling.
-
-"Yes, I heard all about your case," said Tiny, the cow.  "King
-came out in the pasture to tell me about it.  You were very unfortunate,
-but after all you were very lucky that you got to come here,
-where nobody ever even gets cross."
-
-A sharp yelp behind her heels made Tiny jump half out of her
-hide, and then King, laughing at the trick he had played on her,
-sprang from behind her and over her stall to inquire about Billy.
-It seemed strange to Billy to have a dog come near him without
-getting ready for a fight, and he could not get over the surprise of
-being in a place where everybody seemed to get along so nicely.  He
-could not understand it at all until Bobby came in again, and then
-he reflected that all these animals were simply trained to the kindness
-and gentleness that was in their master.  Before he went to sleep
-that night Billy had some more mash and a few tender mustard
-plants to eat, and he slept like a top until morning.
-
-Those were tiresome days for Billy.  He did long to get out and
-play with the other animals, but he knew that he must first let his
-leg heal, so he stood it as patiently as he could.  Bobby came to see
-him at least two or three times a day and rebandaged his leg as often
-as was needed.  The leg healed rapidly, and at last Bobby said one
-morning:
-
-"Well, old fellow, be good two more days to make sure and
-we'll let you out."
-
-Those were the most welcome words that Billy had heard in a
-long time, and he licked Bobby's hand for saying them.  After Bobby
-went away he began to wonder how he should put in those two long,
-long days, but before he had time to fret about it he heard a whole
-chorus of little yelps, and here came Bobby with King and Queen
-and half a dozen pretty baby collies.
-
-"Here, old fellow," said Bobby, "I brought you some playmates.
-Introduce them, King, and amuse our friend Billy all you can."
-Bobby took Dandy from his stall to hitch him up and go into
-the village for some lumber, leaving Billy in good company.  Such
-puppies as those were!  They nipped at him, they pulled his tail,
-they clawed his beard, they hung on his horns, they sprawled all
-over him and came tumbling down on all sides, little, awkward, white
-and brown bunches of down.  There was no chance for Billy to get
-blue or fretful, for those puppies kept him laughing all the time.
-Their awkward antics would have made anyone laugh.  For the two
-whole days that Billy had to stay bandaged up for safety's sake, those
-puppies kept him amused, and when on the third day his splints were
-taken off and he was allowed to walk out-doors with only a cloth
-bandage wrapped around his leg, the puppies scampered out after
-him.
-
-Billy blinked his eyes when he got out-doors again.
-
-My, what a fresh, pretty, green world this was, to be sure!  How
-good it was to be alive!  How good it was to be in such a fine home
-as this!
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-The first day Billy was allowed to walk around for only
-an hour.  The second day he was allowed out for two
-hours, and by the end of that week he was turned loose
-without a bandage of any sort on his leg, as well as
-ever.  And how he did enjoy his freedom!  He had all the chickens
-to get acquainted with, including the two little black bantam roosters,
-Spunk and Saucebox, who would jump up on Bobby's finger and
-crow whenever they were told to do so.  A dozen pigeons he had
-to meet, and four dogs—a pair of pointers, Ponto and Patty, and a
-pair of greyhounds, Hurricane and Lightning,—none of which had
-been in the barn to see him while he was sick.
-
-It was while he was meeting all these new friends that he felt
-something suddenly swoop on his head, just between his horns, while
-something sharp dug into his hair.  The other animals to whom he
-had been talking began to laugh and a hoarse voice from between his
-horns joined in the merriment.  Then Billy knew that Tarwings was
-taking one of his surprising ways of saying good morning.
-
-"Of all the animals here you're the only one that hasn't given me
-a ride," said Tarwings, "and now I think I'll take it.  Get up!"
-He grabbed his beak into the hair on Billy's forehead and spread his
-jet-black wings.
-
-"Oho!" said Billy, "I'll give you a ride you won't like."  So he
-started forward, but all at once lay down and rolled over.  Tarwings
-was too quick for him, however, for as Billy went over he flew up in
-the air a foot or two, and as Billy came back on his feet there was the
-crow again, holding tight with beak and talons, and laughing more
-than ever.  The pony and the cow were both loose in the barnyard
-and they enjoyed the joke on Billy as much as the dogs or the chickens
-or pigeons.  Billy was the only one in the barnyard who did not seem
-to see the fun.  His next attempt to get rid of Tarwings was to run
-straight at the fence and butt it, but once more the crow was too
-quick, and Billy only got a hard bump for his pains, while the crow
-settled down on his head again.
-
-"You're the best of all," laughed the crow.  "You put so much
-more spirit and spunk into your work.  I believe I'll ride with you
-always after this."
-
-"All right," said Billy, "this time I'll give you a good ride."  So
-Billy began to go in a circle around and around the barnyard.
-All the time he had his eye on a thick clump of gooseberry bushes
-over in one corner, and as he ran he gradually widened the circle
-until one trip was right close up to those bushes.  On the next circle,
-just as he came to them, he suddenly wheeled and dived head first in
-among them, and this time he caught Jimmy Tarwings.  The sharp
-branches scraped the crow off of Billy's back and mussed up his
-feathers till he looked as if he had been in a cyclone.  The thorns
-scarcely bothered Billy's tough hide and he quickly made his way
-out of the bushes, to join his particular friends, Dandy and King.
-This time it was Billy's laugh.
-
-"Caw, caw!" cried the crow presently, limping out from the
-bushes.  He was a sorry looking sight, but the other animals did not
-have much pity on him, for he was such a mischief and it was fun
-to see him caught at his own game, so they simply capered around
-and laughed at him.  Bobby, who had just come out in time to see
-Billy plunge into the gooseberry bushes, also stopped to laugh, but
-when the crow flew to him he quit at once, and smoothing down the
-feathers, examined Tarwing carefully to see whether he had any
-serious hurt.
-
-"Serves you right, old fellow," said he, holding the bird close
-up to his cheek.  "If you will indulge in rough play, you may
-expect to get hurt now and then.  Come here, Dandy!"
-
-Dandy came running to him and Bobby quickly hitched him up.
-Bobby was a busy boy and a thrifty one.  He had bought an acre
-of ground just behind the barnyard on credit a long time ago, and had
-paid for it out of the proceeds of the garden truck which he had
-raised on it.  He sold eggs and chickens in the village and raised
-squab which he sent to the near-by city.  Besides this he sometimes
-used Dandy and his wagon for light hauling, turning an honest penny
-wherever he could.  As Mr. Sanders ran the mill in the village and
-was doing very nicely in a business way, Bobby was free to keep all
-his money for himself and to do with it as he pleased, for he had long
-ago proved that he could be trusted with money.  To-day he had a
-little hauling to do and he drove Dandy out to the road with a cheery
-good-bye to his happy barnyard family.
-
-Bobby left the barnyard gate slightly ajar and he had no more
-than gone when Billy, as full of curiosity as ever, managed to swing
-the gate and push it wide open, then he darted out followed by all
-the chickens, which immediately scattered to the flower beds and
-vegetable garden to scratch and eat the tender leaves.
-
-Mrs. Sanders had just hung out her clothes.  Nice white linen
-always had struck Billy as being a fine thing to chew on.  He liked
-it almost as well as boys and girls do chewing gum.  Of course when
-he saw some hanging down for his especial benefit, it was no more
-than polite for him to walk up and take a nibble.
-
-Just as he reached up for it, however, Jimmy Tarwings swooped
-down on Billy's back to give him a scratch with his talons and a nip
-with his bill, and Billy, not expecting it, of course gave a jump and
-his head ran right through the neck of one of Mr. Sander's undershirts,
-where he stuck.  Of course Billy struggled to get away and
-of course Jimmy Tarwings, seeing that Billy was fastened, jumped
-on his back again and began to claw him with his sharp nails.
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-
-"Get up!" croaked Jimmy.  "I'm ready for another ride now.
-Get up, goat!"
-
-Billy ran backwards but the undershirt stuck on his horns and he
-could not get it off over his head.  He ran forward and it stuck
-on his shoulders.  One of the clothes-props came down and the line
-sank still lower, so that he had a better chance to struggle, which he
-did.  Another clothes-prop came down and now a great many of the
-nice, white clothes lay dragging on the ground.  Billy, goaded on by
-the crow, gave another terrific lunge, and this time the line came
-loose at both ends and the whole string of clothes dragged on the
-ground after the galloping goat, while Jimmy Tarwings spread his
-wings and shrieked with joy.  He was having the ride of his life.
-
-Around the house and past the kitchen Billy tore, scattering
-chickens right and left and followed by all the dogs, yelping and
-barking and thinking it the greatest fun that had happened in a long
-time.  Around to the front of the house went the queer procession
-and straight through Mrs. Sanders' pet geranium bed, all scarlet with
-beautiful blossoms that Billy's samples of wet clothing mashed down
-flat.
-
-Mrs. Sanders was just opening the front door to scrub off her
-porch when she saw her clothes making such a queer trip.  Of course
-she ran out, but just as she stooped to catch the line a flapping sheet
-whipped around her foot and gave her a jerk that sent her rolling
-over in the grass, while the rest of the string of clothes swept on
-over her, some of the wet garments dragging right across her face.
-She was not hurt a bit and she even had to laugh at what a
-ridiculous figure she must have cut if anybody had been looking, but
-nevertheless she took after Billy and her clothes again.  Billy, by
-this time, had made a circle which wiped out a pansy bed and now,
-frantic to get away from this strange harness and from his tormentor,
-the crow, he made a dash for the open front door.  The line of
-clothes caught on the front step, but now Billy was going so fast
-that the undershirt tore and let him kick himself free.  Moreover,
-as it passed on over his back it caught Jimmy Tarwings, and for
-the second time that morning swept him from Billy's back.  This
-time he was in a worse fix than before, for the wet garment, in
-springing back, rolled him up in a tight wad and thumped him
-back on the steps.
-
-Billy dashed straight on toward an open door across the room.
-He was so confused that he did not see exactly where he was
-going and did not dodge the center table quite in time.  He ran
-against one leg of it, and over the table went with a crash, throwing
-a big lamp over and spilling it on the sofa, drenching it with oil
-and breaking a lot of choice china bric-a-brac that Mrs. Sanders
-had collected.
-
-Out through the kitchen Billy hurried with the dogs, Mrs. Sanders
-right after him.  The kitchen door was closed but the
-window was open, so Billy gave a jump through it, and here he made
-more trouble, for on a low, wide shelf, just outside the kitchen
-window, Mrs. Sanders had placed some pies which she had just
-taken from the oven.  Billy landed on this shelf and upset it,
-throwing all the pies upside down on the ground, while the dogs came
-pouring out of the window in such haste that some of them turned
-somersaults when they reached the gravel.  Even the collie puppies
-had toddled behind on this chase, and now they could be heard
-yelping in the kitchen and wishing that they would hurry and grow
-up so that they too could jump through windows.  Billy began to
-think it was time for him to get away from there, so he whirled
-again for the front of the house, ran with all his might down to
-the gate and jumped square over it into the road outside.
-
-"Fine!" said a cheery voice that Billy recognized at once.
-"That was a great jump.  I guess I'll have to make a high jumper
-out of you."
-
-Billy stopped, ashamed of himself.  For a minute he had been
-wanting to run away from this kind friend of his, but all at once
-he made up his mind to stay right where he was and take a whipping
-if he had to have it, and, as all the dogs piled out of the gate
-after him and set up a yelping and capering around Bobby and
-Dandy, Billy stood among them, his head hanging down, feeling
-very cheap.  Bobby, who had forgotten something and come back
-for it, was a little puzzled, until he looked up to the house and
-saw his mother sitting on the front porch holding up her line of
-draggled, dirty clothes, while Tiny, the cow, was calmly eating
-up her nasturtium bed, unnoticed.  Then Bobby understood.
-
-"You're a bad goat," he said to Billy, shaking his finger at
-him.  "I have been puzzling what to name you, but now I know,"
-and by some strange accident he landed on the very name that
-Billy's mother had given him long before.  "I'm going," he said,
-"to call you Billy Mischief."
-
-Billy had to behave himself splendidly to make the Sanders
-family forget that morning's mischief, but at last Mrs. Sanders
-remembered that she had seen Jimmy Tarwings on Billy's back when
-he was running with the clothes fast to his neck, and so they blamed
-it on the crow.  They were used to blaming mischief on that busy
-bird, so that a little more or less did not matter much to him.
-
-And now Billy's education began.  Every day, for an hour or
-so, Bobby taught tricks to the pets.  The first time Billy saw this he
-scarcely knew his new friends, they were so different and so much
-in earnest.  First of all, Bobby, who had been training his animals
-for a long time, placed a row of boxes in front of the barn.
-
-"Dandy!" he cried, and the pony ran quickly to the big box
-in the center and stood upon it.  "King!  Queen!" Bobby cried,
-and the two dogs jumped upon the boxes, one each side of the pony.
-"Ponto!  Patty!" and the next box on each side was filled.  "Curly!
-Spot!  Hurricane!  Lightning!" and the next four boxes, two on
-each side, were occupied.
-
-This disposed of all the dogs except the six little collie puppies,
-and Bobby next called the names of these, one at a time.  Of course
-the puppies did not know what to do, but as soon as Bobby had
-called the name of one of them he set that one up on its box so that
-it would soon learn to know where it belonged.
-
-"Jimmy!" called Bobby, and down from the barn fluttered
-Jimmy Tarwings and sat on the pony's head.  Then Bobby gave
-a peculiar low thrilling whistle, and with a whirl and a rush the
-pigeons came circling and fluttering down, each one landing on a
-head of one of the dogs.  "Spunk!  Saucebox!" Bobby called, and
-the two bantams jumped up, one on each of his outstretched hands.
-Two of the pigeons settled down on each of Bobby's shoulders and
-one on top of his head.  The two bantam roosters started to crow
-as loud as they could and that was the signal for the pony and all
-the dogs except the puppies to stand up on their hind feet, while
-the crow and the pigeons fluttered their wings.  "Down!" said
-Bobby, and they all settled back upon their haunches.  Bobby
-dropped his arms and the bantam roosters fluttered to the ground.
-
-Next Bobby brought out a barrel and called Dandy.  The pony
-came running and with a little jump landed right on top of the
-barrel, rolling it forwards and backwards, without Bobby helping
-him in any way or even coming near him.  Then Bobby took a
-mouth harp from his pocket and began to play a lively little waltz
-tune, upon which Dandy jumped on top of a little platform that
-Bobby had built and standing on his hind feet, began to waltz.
-
-"On your head, now, Dandy," called Bobby, and the pony, after
-much struggling, managed to stand on his head for a moment.  This
-was a new trick that Bobby had been nearly a year in teaching him,
-but now he was almost able to do it without trouble although it was
-very, very difficult.  This was not all of the tricks that Dandy could
-do, for he could spell his own name and Bobby's and some others
-by pawing printed cards around, and could pick out colors when
-told to do so, and could answer questions by nodding his head, and
-count up simple figures by pawing with his foot, but his master did
-not ask him to do all these tricks this time.  Bobby was as considerate
-of his animals as if they were human friends.
-
-Bobby next called King and Queen and they came with a rush,
-jumping upon the platform and sitting with their fore legs up, happy
-and eager.  Bobby put the empty barrel, which was open at both
-ends and scraped smooth inside, on the platform.  Then King and
-Queen got one on each side of it and rolled it backward and
-forward, then they both jumped on top of it, one facing one way and
-the other the other, and rolled it, King walking backwards and
-Queen walking forwards.  When it was at the very edge of the
-platform King walked forwards and Queen walked backwards and
-rolled it the other way.  Then, at Bobby's command, they stopped
-it in the middle of the platform where King stood toward one end
-of it, tilting the other end up while Queen pushed that end so that
-it stood upright.  Then King and Queen jumped into it, both at
-once from opposite directions, tilting the barrel over and coming
-out side by side, a very difficult trick and one that had taken Bobby
-a long while to teach them.  Then he threw them a light rubber
-ball, and King, taking it in his teeth, would toss it and Queen would
-catch it.  Then she would toss it back.  They were ready to do still
-more tricks, but Bobby never put them through all that they knew
-at one time, not wishing to tire them.
-
-"Ponto and Patty!" he called, and the two pointers took the
-places of the collies.  They stood on rolling globes, turned
-somersaults and jumped straight up in the air to catch a piece of red
-leather that Bobby had hung from a light, horizontal bar which
-he kept putting higher and higher for them.  They did other tricks,
-and then the greyhounds did some very wonderful high jumping.
-The terriers waltzed and turned back springs and walked a tight
-rope.  The pigeons, at Bobby's command, wheeled in the air, two
-by two, by four's, in single file, and in fact went through a regular
-drill just above Bobby's head.
-
-It was a finer performance than those usually seen in traveling
-shows.  Bobby had taught all these pets of his just for his own
-amusement and they seemed to enjoy it just as much as he did, and after
-each one had done his part, Bobby always had some little delicacy
-for him; a lump of sugar for the pony, little pieces of meat for the
-dogs, some special seed for the pigeons, and he had a pat on the
-head and a loving word for all of them.
-
-"All over!" he cried at last, and the patient animals ran scampering
-from their boxes.  "Now, Billy Mischief," said Bobby, turning
-to our friend, the goat, "come on, and we'll learn a stunt or two
-ourselves."
-
-Billy came willingly enough when his name was called and when
-Bobby patted his hands on the boards, Billy jumped upon the
-platform.
-
-"Shake hands," said Bobby.
-
-Of course Billy did not know what this meant, but Bobby caught
-hold of one of his fore feet and lifted it up, shaking it gently, then
-he set it down and patted Billy on the flanks.  "Shake hands," he
-said again, and this time he tapped Billy on the leg.  Still Billy
-did not know what to do, so Bobby once more picked up his foot
-and shook it, then patted him on the shoulder.  A dozen times
-Bobby patiently did this, until at last when he said, "Shake hands!",
-and tapped Billy gently on the leg, Billy lifted up his hoof and
-laid it in Bobby's hand to be shaken.
-
-"Good boy," said Bobby, patting him and, reaching in his
-pocket, he drew out some tender lettuce leaves which he had found
-Billy liked better than anything else.  That was all for that morning.
-
-The next morning Bobby only had to say, "Shake hands!" twice
-until Billy lifted up his hoof, and before that lesson was over he
-only needed the words and did not even need to be tapped on the
-leg.  For two or three days longer that was all the lesson he got,
-because it does not do to try to teach animals too many tricks at
-once.  It only confuses them, but Billy, once started, was very quick
-to learn.  Soon he could do as many tricks as the best of them, and
-had his box right alongside his friend Dandy's.  Some of the tricks
-that he had learned were brand new ones.  They had never been
-seen in a show or anywhere else, and how Billy did like the work!
-How he did like Bobby and all his animal friends, and how he did
-like this peaceful happy place!
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-One evening Bobby and his father were standing at the
-front gate talking when a dusty, red-faced, little fat
-man came trudging along the road with a white goat
-dragging at his heels.  He was a queer looking figure
-and he seemed to be very much worried as he came up to them.
-
-"Mister," said he to Mr. Sanders, "could you told me where
-I should get such a job yet?"
-
-"I don't know of any place," said Mr. Sanders.  "Where are
-you from?  What countryman are you?"
-
-"I been a Switzer," said the man.  "I got no money, no job,
-no anything, only this one dumb-headed goat."
-
-Mr. Sanders smiled as he looked from the man to the goat,
-both of them woe-begone tramps.
-
-"Rather queer," he said, "to be tramping around the country
-with a goat.  Where did you get it?"
-
-"That should be all of my troubles, yet," said the man mournfully.
-"When I start von Switzerland I have more as two hundred
-goats what I have bought for a partnerships to a man for a goat
-farm back there about four hours' walk.  I have such a wrecks
-by my ship and I lose me all but this one dumb-headed goat.  Well,
-I have my ticket by the railroad to where this man should have the
-goats.  I promise him some goats, I got one left, I come all the
-way von New York und take it to him and what you think?  He
-won't have any.  Because I don't bring him the more as two
-hundred goats what I promise, he won't take even this one dumb-head,"
-and he scowled at the poor goat at his heels as if it had been the
-cause of all of his woe.
-
-"How much will you take for your goat?" suddenly broke in Bobby.
-
-"Oh, Bobby boy, you don't want another goat?" objected his
-father.  "You've got the place overrun now."
-
-"Oh but, father, I want a team," said Bobby.  "I've been wishing
-for one to put on the other side of Billy when I'm having them
-do stunts, besides hitching them up to a cart that I am making.  They
-will make a fine team."
-
-"Don't you think you could find better ways than that to spend
-your money?" said Mr. Sanders.
-
-"I don't think so," said Bobby.  "If I can get it at the right
-price, it's a good investment.  How much will you take?" he asked,
-turning to the man.
-
-"I take me ten dollars," said the man.
-
-"Too much," said Bobby.  "It's more than I think the goat is
-worth and more than I care to pay."
-
-"How much then?" asked the man.
-
-"Seven dollars," answered Bobby.  "I don't want to dicker
-with you or I would have offered you less.  That is the most I can
-pay."
-
-"Take the goat yes!" said the man.  "It's a dumb-head, anyhow.
-I belief me."
-
-Bobby opened the gate joyfully and patted the goat on the neck.
-The goat, tired and dusty, felt grateful for that touch just as Billy
-had felt and when Bobby said "Come on," it followed gladly.
-
-"I'll bring you the money right away," said Bobby.  "Come
-on," he called again to the goat, and ran back to the barn.
-Running into Billy's stall, he said: "Billy, my boy, I've brought a new
-friend for you and I want you to be good to this stranger."  With
-that the strange goat came in after him and Billy leaped up with a
-bleat of joy.  The new goat was his mother!
-
-Bobby ran back to the house to get his money, leaving the two
-goats together, and they had so much to tell each other at once that
-neither one of them heard very much what the other was saying,
-until Billy happened to pay attention to where his mother was
-explaining how she had just been sold to Bobby.
-
-.. _`Neither one of them heard very much what the other was saying.`:
-
-.. figure:: images/img-150.jpg
-   :align: center
-   :alt: Neither one of them heard very much what the other was saying.
-
-   Neither one of them heard very much what the other was saying.
-
-"Wait a minute," said Billy, "did you say that man was out
-there now?"
-
-"Yes," answered his mother.  "Bobby just went to get him
-some money."
-
-"Wait right here a minute," said Billy.  "I owe him something
-for throwing me overboard into the sea, and I always like to
-pay my debts."
-
-Out of the barn he ran, through the gate, down the drive, and
-cleared the road gate with a pretty jump.  Then he wheeled to
-where the fat man, the money in his pocket, was saying good-bye
-to Bobby and his father.  Billy had no time to say anything just
-then; he just ran with his head down.  The fat man turned and
-saw Billy coming and started to run toward the village, going so
-fast that he fairly waddled sideways, but there was no use for him
-to run.  Like two freight cars bumping together, Billy landed on
-fat Hans Zug just once.
-
-"A thousand lightnings yet again!" yelled Hans.
-
-Billy did not stop to answer him.  He just trotted back, jumped
-over the gate and hurried on to the barn to talk to his mother, about
-this splendid, contented home that was to be theirs for a long time
-to come.  And we could not say good-bye to them in a happier place.
-
-.. vspace:: 4
-
-.. class:: center white-space-pre-line
-
-   \*      \*      \*      \*      \*      \*      \*      \*
-
-.. vspace:: 4
-
-.. class:: center large bold
-
-   The
-
-.. class:: center x-large bold
-
-   Billy Whiskers Series
-
-.. vspace:: 2
-
-.. class:: center medium bold white-space-pre-line
-
-   By
-   Frances
-   Trego
-   Montgomery
-
-.. vspace:: 2
-
-The antics of frolicsome Billy Whiskers,
-that adventuresome goat Mrs. Montgomery writes
-about in these stories make all the boys and girls
-chuckle—and every story that is issued about
-him is pronounced by them "better than the last."
-
-.. vspace:: 2
-
-.. class:: center medium bold
-
-   TITLES IN SERIES
-
-.. vspace:: 1
-
-.. class:: noindent white-space-pre-line
-
-\1. Billy Whiskers
-\2. Billy Whiskers' Kids
-\3. Billy Whiskers, Junior
-\4. Billy Whiskers' Travels
-\5. Billy Whiskers at the Circus
-\6. Billy Whiskers at the Fair
-\7. Billy Whiskers' Friends
-\8. Billy Whiskers, Jr., and His Chums
-\9. Billy Whiskers' Grandchildren
-\10. Billy Whiskers' Vacation
-\11. Billy Whiskers Kidnaped
-\12. Billy Whiskers' Twins
-\13. Billy Whiskers In an Aeroplane
-\14. Billy Whiskers In Town
-\17. Billy Whiskers at the Exposition
-\18. Billy Whiskers Out West
-\19. Billy Whiskers in the South
-\20. Billy Whiskers In Camp
-\21. Billy Whiskers in France
-\22. Billy Whiskers' Adventures
-\23. Billy Whiskers in the Movies
-\24. Billy Whiskers Out for Fun
-\25. Billy Whiskers' Frolics
-\26. Billy Whiskers at Home
-\27. Billy Whiskers' Pranks
-
-.. vspace:: 2
-
-.. class:: center white-space-pre-line
-
-   BOUND IN BOARDS
-   COVER IN COLORS
-   PROFUSE TEXT ILLUSTRATIONS
-   FULL-PAGE DRAWINGS IN COLORS
-
-.. vspace:: 2
-
-.. class:: center bold
-
-THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY—AKRON, OHIO
-
-.. vspace:: 3
-
-.. _`back cover`:
-
-.. figure:: images/img-bcover.jpg
-   :align: center
-   :alt: back cover
-
-   back cover
-
-.. vspace:: 6
-
-.. pgfooter::
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