The Pet Goat: Thrilling Conclusion
Sorry, I left everybody hanging… Anyway, cut and pasted from that blog comes:
Part Two: The Goat Stops the Robber
A girl had a pet goat. Her dad had a red car.
A car robber was going to steal her dad’s car. The girl and her goat were playing in the back yard.
Just then the goat stopped playing. He saw the robber. He bent his head down and started to run for the robber. The robber was bending over the seat of the car. The goat hit him with sharp horns. The car robber went flying.
The girl’s Dad ran out of the house. He grabbed the robber. “you were trying to steal my car,” he yelled.
The girl said, “but my goat stopped him.”
“Yes,” her dad said, “that goat saved my car.”
The car robber said, “something hit me when I was trying to steal that car.”
The girl said, “my goat hit you.”
The girl hugged the goat. Her Dad said, “that goat can stay with us. And he can eat all the cans and canes and caps and capes he wants.”
The girl smiled. Her goat smiled. Her Dad smiled. But the car robber did not smile. He said, “I am sore.”
The End.
The Pet Goat, Siegfried Engelmann & Elaine C. Bruner, Lesson 60, page 153, Reading Mastery 2, Storybook #1, SRA (Scientific Research Associates), McGraw-Hill, 1995, ISBN# 0026863553
Analysis of this story in light of current events is much needed.
An unfortunate mistake was made when the original keyboardist typed out Part One. The goat ate cans and he ate canes. He ate pans and he ate panes. He even ate capes and caps. … not, as it is on this blog He ate cans and he ate cakes. He ate cakes and he ate cats. It subtley shifts the story… See: in the corrected version, this is what you call actionable intelligence, as opposed to the wishy-washy muddled version that came watered down because of the various beauracratic channels that this came through.
This address: http://www.mypetgoat.com makes the common name mistake. It’s The, THE, THE, not My.