GOATS.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—I wish I could number myself with those more fortunate people who are "unfamiliar with goats." My daughter has kept them in large numbers for years. You are quite correct in stating that " the goat which has been well treated will go with you, or with any one else for that matter, for as long a walk as you please." Dinner was an hour late the other night because the parlour-maid, hurrying home from another accom. panied walk, met one of the friendly animals on the avenue. He has very long, sharp horns. He also has the most appalling smell, and he lives near my garden. In vain do I try to forget him among roses and lilies. None of our friends have invited our "accommodating and responsive animals" to pay them a visit. I am in hopes that your widely read paper may put the Idea into some hospitable head. It is true that they "eat the leaves of most trees as they go along." We have very few trees left. They are "also particularly fond of ivy." My house was once a great ornament in this country, and I am very fond of ivy, too, with which it was all covered. The goats have mown it down. They stand on their hind legs, and there is a sharp line clipped up to four or five feet the whole way along the wall. Cheese made from their milk is, I admit, excellent; the milk itself even "of those short-haired goats" I consider dis gusting, and woe &tide my dairy-maid if she ekes out the short winter supply with goat's milk! I am a regular and admiring reader of your paper every Sunday, but to-day it has indeed broken my Sabbath calm.—I am, Sir, Sic.,
A PERSON FAMIUAR WITH GOATS.
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