7 Good Reasons To Buy A Goat. Written By Fred Jones For His Wife Dil.

• Brooke Driessen, Grade 11
• Short Story
• 2009

• It will be a new adventure for us at this late stage in life.
• It will entertain the grandchildren when they come to visit.
• We can use the milk to make cheese, something I’m particularly fond of.
• We can take it to country shows and win prizes.
• We can leave it to our eldest child in the will to nag and annoy her even after we’re gone.
• It can keep us company, like a useful dog, particularly if one of us goes before the other.
• Please!

Dil handed back the note to her husband and said sternly, “Fred, we’re not even sixty yet! What do you really want a goat for?”
With a sheepish look on his face Fred said, “Well, I figured that if we had a goat I wouldn’t have to trim the bloody hedge!”