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Where now shall I go, poor, forsaken, and blind?
Can I find one to guide me, so faithful and kind?
To my sweet native village so far, far away,
I can never return with my poor dog Tray.

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As my powder and shot were now very nearly done, I set myself to study some art to trap and snare the goats to see whether I could not catch some of them alive. To this purpose, I made snares to hamper them; and I believe they were more than once taken in them; but my tackle was not good, for I had no wire, and always found them broken and my bait devoured. At length, I resolved to try a pitfall: so I dug several large pits in the earth, in places where I had observed the goats used to feed, and over these pits I placed hurdles, of my own making too, with a great weight upon them; and several times I put ears of barley and dry rice, without setting the trap; and I could easily perceive that the

goats had gone in and eaten up the corn, for I could see the marks of their feet. At length, I set three traps in one night, and going the next morning, I found them all standing, and yet the bait eaten and gone; this was very discouraging. However, I altered my traps; and, after a few trials, going one morning to see my traps, I found in one of them a large old he-goat, and in one of the others, three kids, a male and two females.

As to the old one, I knew not what to do with him ; he was so fierce, I durst not go into the pit to him; that is to say, to go about to bring him away alive, which was what I wanted. I could have killed him, but that was not my business, nor would it answer my end; so I even let him out, and he ran away as if he had been frighted out of his wits; but I had forgot then, what I learned afterwards, that hunger will tame a lion. If I had let him stay there three or four days without food, and then had carried him some water to drink, and then a little corn, he would have been as tame as one of the kids; for goats are very sagacious, tractable creatures, when they are well used.

However, for the present, I let him go, knowing no better at that time. Then I went to the three kids, and, taking them one by one, I tied them with strings together, and with some difficulty brought them all home.

It was a good while before they would feed. But some sweet corn, which I threw to them, tempted them, and they began to be tame.

D. DEFOE.

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LITTLE Cowboy, what have you heard,
Up on the lonely rath's green mound?
Only the plaintive yellow bird
Sighing in sultry fields around,
Chary, chary, chary, chee-ee-
Only the grasshopper and the bee ?-

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You watch your cattle the summer day,
Sup on potatoes, sleep in the hay;

How would you like to roll in your carriage,
Look for a duchess's daughter in marriage?

Seize the Shoemaker-then you may!
"Big boots a-hunting,

Sandals in the hall,
White for a wedding feast,
Pink for a ball.

This way, that way,

So we make a shoe ;
Getting rich every stitch,
Tick-tack-too!"

Nine-and-ninety treasure-crocks
This keen miser-fairy hath,

Hid in mountains, woods, and rocks,
Ruin and round tower, cave and rath,
And where the cormorants build;

From times of old
Guarded by him;

Each of them fill'd

Full to the brim
With gold!

I caught him at work one day, myself,
In the castle-ditch where foxglove grows,-

A wrinkled, wizen'd, and bearded Elf,
Spectacles stuck on his pointed nose,
Silver buckles to his hose,

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