![]() ![]() She could lean against the slats and knock them flat. She could jump atop her shed and vault across the fence. Still, that cantankerous goat would escape. ![]() They'd likely look upon Parthenia as a tasty supper indeed. Besides, he said, the heathen Chinamen in the shanties at the edge of town were known to eat all manner of meat - rat meat, crow meat, cat meat, dog meat. The whole place felt jollier when she was there.īut Papa said it was not right to let Parthenia run loose. He said Parthenia went tripping through the tiny clapboard hospital, entertaining the patients. Wilton from the hospital lamenting his late nasturtiums. Somersby at church fuming about her hollyhocks, Horace Ahrens at school giving account of his mother's lost cabbages, Dr. She would escape the island at ebb tide, and after-ward we would hear reports - Mrs. Mama gave roses the go-by in time, but Papa built fence after fence for the garden before he finally set up one that goat looked upon as a discouragement.Īfter that, she raided other folks' gardens. When she had taken her fill of brambles, she commenced upon Mama's vegetables and roses. Papa had bought her - Parthenia - to crop the poison oak and blackberry bushes that threatened to overtake our island. ![]() The beginning of the end of our life in the lighthouse was the day the goat got loose. ![]()
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