LESSON XXXVI.
1. In many ways the goat is like the sheep. It is about the same size, and has the same kind of teeth and hoofs, and it eats the same kind of food. It has a thick coat of hair. Some goats have fine hair that is made into cloth and nice shawls.
2. All the goats have spreading, sharp horns, and the billy-goat has a long beard, which hangs down almost to the ground. The kids are playful, like lambs, but they are shy, and do not like to come near folks.
3. The goat is more active than the sheep; it can run faster and jump higher, and it climbs rocks where a sheep can not go.
4. The billy-goat is apt to be cross, and then he runs and butts anything he meets.
5. Like the cow, the goat gives us milk, and butter, and cheese. It also gives fine leather for ladies’ shoes and for binding books, and the kid gives us soft leather which is made into gloves.
6. Goats do not live in large flocks like sheep, but they go about three or four together, and will pick up a living where a sheep would starve.
7. They are so sure-footed that they will climb up the sides of steep rocks, wherever they can find a place to put their little pointed hoofs.