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reads novels, but he will read any
book that is about some other place
except where he is now, and he
will read any book about Israel,
even if it is written by an Austral
ian bushman whose entire life has
been spent in a cave Down Under.
But even when we were farming,
he read the New York Times Sun
day edition, and books about farm
ing. So, the book about goats. It
detailed a successful venture into
goat farming by two maiden sisters
out where the buffalo roam in the
great state, or maybe it was Texas.
~”Wtrcm lie teacned the chapter on
profit, he let out a whoop of pure
joy. The sisters were selling
goat's milk at" thirty-five cents a
pint to private and public institu
tions. Not only were they selling,
but according to their book, a
thirsty public stood waiting at their
gates, clamoring for goat’s milk.
Furthermore, while the sisters were
making this easy buck, they were
also performing a good deed
Goat’s milk was an excellent food
for babies allegeric to cow's milk.
Adults with stomach disorders were
able to digest goat’s milk. Adoles
cents with skin troubles either
drank it or bathed in it, I forget
which. What better combination of
business and mitzvah could a Jew
find? We jumped in with both
feet.
Two days later, while my hus
band was delivering the milk to
the co-op in town, forty goats were
delivered into my trusting hands.
We should have been suspicious
then and there. What dealer had
forty goats waiting around in his
dock at the local stockyard? When
did anyone ever get such prompt
service on a stock delivery? Who
sells to indigent tenant farmers
with a "nothing down, first pay
ment sixty days from delivery”
deal'.’
Some years later, I got the
dealer's end of the story from his
son. His father, said the young man,- ■
was so glad to get rid of the goats
that he had given orders that on
delivery, his son was to open the
van, release the animais and "get
out of there, fast!" If you knew
goats, you would understand his
urgency. But the young man was
not long in the business world. He
still had some compassion for what
was obviously a particularly stupid
customer. I was all for letting the
goats frolic on the front lawn, but
he insisted on putting them into
an enclosed area. We had a long,
low tool shed to the rear of the
stable, and into this he turned the
goats. Once they were discharged,
he slammed the doors of his van
shut, jumped into the truck and
left in a cloud of dust without so
much as a backward glance.
It was the kind of hot July day
that the midwest knows so well.
Not a cloud in the sky, not a leaf
stirring. Squirrels pawed lethargic
ally at the ground, and thieving
crowds pecked at their own fea-
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221 West Crawford Street, Dalton, Georgia
Phone BR. 8-2121
Stroup Funeral Home, Inc.
J. Farrell Stroup, Mortician
310 Selvidge St. Dalton, Ga.
Phone BR. 8-5339
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DALTON, GEORGIA
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