Street Incident in Detroit, p. 1

Street Incident in Detroit, p. 1

"Says the Detroit Free Press, “There is an old goat owned on Lowis Street, which has received a great deal of training from the boys. Last Fourth of July they discovered that if they stuck a fire cracker in the end of a cane and held it at William he would lower his head and go for them, and they have practiced the trick so much that the goat will tackle any human being who points a stick at him. Yesterday noon he was loafing at the corner of Third and Lewis streets, when a corpulent citizen pointed his cane just to the left of the goat, and said, ‘That’s the worst piece of sidewalk in this town.’ The goat had been [eying] the cane, and the moment it came up he lowered his head, made six or eight jumps, and his head struck the corpulent citizen just on “the belt.” The man went over into a mass of old tin, dilapidated butter kegs and abandoned hoop-skirts, and the goat turned a somersault the other way, while the citizen threw stones at a boy seated on a doorstep who was laughing tears as big as chestnuts and crying out, “Oh! It’s ‘nuff to kill a feller.”

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San Fransisco Elevator

1974-1-24