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—and the Captain came; and there Karsten
and I stood holding the goat and the eat in our
arms.
Oh, it was an awful interview! The Captain
wasn’t gentie, not he, and Mother had to pay
heaps of money.
“ There is no sense in traveling with such a
menagerie,” said the Captain.
The passengers who had nothing but dry
multerberries for dessert were certainly angry
with us, and Mother was most unhappy. But
the eat lay in my lap and blinked with its
yel-low eyes and purred like far-away thunder,—
it was so happy; and Billy-goat rubbed its head
with that silky beard against Karsten’s jacket
and looked up at him with its trustful black
eyes; so neither Karsten nor I had the heart to
scold. And it wouldn’t have done any good,
anyway.
At the train, trouble began again, for just
imagine! Ko one knew what the freight
charges should be for a kid. The ticket-agent
stuck his head out of his window to stare at
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