Last night , my boy Drex ( one of Bon Bon ’s triplets ) came extend to the dairy - goat barn with a downcast grammatical construction on his case .
“ It ’s embarrassing , ” he muttered .
“ What is ? ” I expect him .
This is what he told me :
The sheep and goats were down by the large brush good deal nibbling bush when Bon Bon decided she ’d like to go next door . She leapt over the woven - wire fencing ( Bon Bon jumps like a deer ) and Drex and Simka ( my cunning , brown daughter from Big Mama ) wobble under it to fall in her .
When Mom called the caprine animal to come eat up , Bon Bon and my kids were gone . She walked toward the road and spied them on the other side of the fence . Then she ran and induce Dad . Mom and Dad do n’t desire us over there – ever .
They scooped some yummy Capricorn the Goat feed into a pail and took it to where the goats were abide by the fence . They tried to figure out how the caprine animal got out because the fencing was n’t down . They jiggled the feed . Bon Bon stuck her pinna out like the Flying Nun . She wanted the feed but not enough to derive and get it . Finally , Mom and Dad climbed over the fencing and attempt to tempt them up the Benny Hill to the route . They had to take the air through a heavy stand of blackberry cane and the goats would n’t come .
Bon Bon heaved a Brobdingnagian sigh , turned and voyage over the woven wire fencing like a jump horse with her neck stretched out and her legs tuck full-strength as could be . She strolled up the hill without a backward glance . Drex said he anticipate and predict his mummy and seek to follow by pushing back under the fencing . It would n’t stir . What to do !
So Mom wax back over the fence . Dad hoist Drex as high-pitched as he could . Drex is a year honest-to-god , so he ’s a somewhat enceinte goat . Dad huffed and grumbled and somehow chuck out Drex ’s front parts over the fence . Mom grabbed Drex ’s front ramification and Dad boost his butt . Drex say he yell like a miss . They lifted him across , but he did n’t put his landing gear wheel down and burst in a heap on the ground . He screamed again , scrambled to his feet , and lit out for the dairy goat barn to find his mom and sister .
About the fourth dimension he finished his story we heard another anguished scream . That was Simka getting boosted over the fencing . Uzzi and I shook our heads .
There ’s a saying , “ If you could throw a pail full of water through a fencing , goats get through it , too . ” If you know goats , you ’ll trust it .
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