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Title: The Goat and Her Kid

Author: Harriet Myrtle

Release Date: May 2, 2007 [EBook #21275]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note:

The last story "Winter Pleasures" seems to end abruptly. But this is
so in the book. There is no missing text.

The Rose-Bud Stories,

FOR YOUNG CHILDREN.

Illustrated.

THE GOAT AND HER KID.

BY

MRS. HARRIET MYRTLE.

New York:

SHELDON AND COMPANY.

1870.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by SHELDON
AND COMPANY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the
Southern District of New York.

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The Goat and her Kid.

The grass plot at the back of the cottage was a very bright green, and
sparkled with the morning dews. It was kept smooth, and level, and
short, by the garden-roller going over it once a week, and still more
by the constant nibbling of the goat, who was allowed to be there all
day, because she had a pretty little young kid that ran by her side.

But it is not to be supposed that this kid was contented with always
running close to its mother's side. Kids are very fond of dancing and
frisking about, and this one was more fond of it than any other in the
whole village.

One day a poor Italian boy came down the lane playing upon a pipe, and
beating a little tabor. He used to play these for two dolls that
danced upon a board by means of a string which went through their
bodies, and was fastened to his knee, so that when