The next day they were in this same pasture enjoying themselves
when they saw some boys coming toward them. At first they thought
the boys were looking for them; but soon discovered from their
conversation that the boys were going swimming in a little lake
at the end of the meadow near the woods. They passed close by the
goats without paying any attention to them.
One boy had a bag of pop-corn he was eating and Billy smelling it
commenced to long for some. The firemen had bought salted and
buttered pop-corn for him every day, and the smell of this made
him hungry and he determined to get the bag from the boy.
"But how can you, Billy?" asked Nanny, when he told her he was
going to get the pop-corn.
"I'll tell you; when they leave their clothes on the bank and go
in swimming I will steal up and eat what is left in the bag, and
anything else I find in their pockets."
"How are you going to get anything out of their pockets without
hands?"
"Why, I will eat pocket and all if I smell anything in there I
like," answered Billy.
"Billy Whiskers, you are the most determined goat I ever heard
of," said Nanny.
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