December 13, 2008

Brooklyn Roof Goats, 1895

Last Monday morning Stenographer Hettrick of the Ewen street police court dropped his note book as he was running by the engine house to catch a Graham avenue trolley car. Billy got the book and turned over the papers with his tongue, looking for a choice morsel with which to tickle his palate. Billy had a remarkable digestive system, even for a goat, but a notebook, containing opinions, decisions, rulings, quotations from the classics, meditations uttered in Latin, lectures to delinquent husbands, advice to wayward girls, fatherly advice to boys who build bonfires in the streets, choice bits of poetry with which Judge Watson burdened the public record in a single day is enough to give a dozen Williamsburg goats dyspepsia. Billy ate the notebook at one meal.

He became very ill and hid himself in the darkest corner of the cellar.

A tragic tale from the April 15, 1895 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

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  1. Sheila Ryan on December 13th, 2008 at 10:13 am

    Damned quack of a vet.

  2. Lucy Foley on December 13th, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Excuse me, but Brooklyn roof goats have evolved a LOT since then. Round these parts we know what’s what. We keep our goats on the roof and our crocodiles in the basement. The pink flamingoes are really only for the crocs’ entertainment.

  3. Michael Dresser on December 14th, 2008 at 11:07 am

    Hello from another Michael Dresser

  4. Lucy Foley on December 14th, 2008 at 12:45 pm

    Hello, the other Michael Dresser. Do you live in Brooklyn? Can you offer your namesake a floor to sleep on when he comes with his knapsack in January?

  5. Mike Dresser on December 14th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

    Hey, other Michael Dresser. Funny story: whenever I’m talking to friends about googling my name, I tell them, “nah, there’s this radio host that covers me right up.” You and a writer for the Baltimore Sun made me nigh unsearchable until I started contributing to Clusterflock. Now I’m accountable for what I say; living in your shadow had its benefits.

  6. Michael Grant Smith on December 14th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

    Which one of you is Michael Grant Dresser?

  7. Michael Dresser on December 24th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    I am not sure how this works… but here goes. To Lucy…I am just outside of Milwaukee about 90 miles out of Chicago. And Mike Dresser if you are the rapper also… get in touch and I will give you some national exposure with an interview. I am now using my middle name and have had to rebrand after all of these years because there are so many of us now!!! Use my e-mail address the only way I got this message was through a google alert. Micheal RayDresser

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