Animal News: The Chronicles of Newman and other Stories
Expensive Appetizers, or How Newman Ate my Checkbook
October 31, 2003
It appears that the diet of goats is more varied than originally thought.
And yet, although goats generally do not show much concern towards the human financial budget, in this case Mr. Newman Goat elected to eat only the unwritten checks, all of them. What brilliance this goat has! Four checks waiting for deposit were untouched (well, not quite - slight smudges of what one can only surmise to be goat "berries" adorn them, but the monetary value stands provided the bank clerks are not squeamish... maybe a good time to use the ATM machine) and the precious check register was left intact. He did, however, show slight signs of indigestion.
There are those who seem to think that Newman has human qualities. Au contraire, I would never insult him so -- the truth is that Newman represents the essence of goathood; he is the UberGoat, more goatish than any other goat known to man (or at least in Maryland).
And no, he will not be dressing up for Hallowe'en -- he will doing his job of guard goat, chasing off trick or treaters, probably quite successfully.
Until next time,
Farmer Anne
Star Gazing Farm
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