Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — The Way They Whistled. [ARTICLE]

The Way They Whistled.

A New York gentleman was out hunting in the Sierras with an old hunter. v “The Bocky Mountain goats are mighty keerful,” said the hunter. “While they are feeding they put out a sentinel, and if that goat sees or smells anything suspicious, he makes a low, whistlin’ sort of a noise, and they are out of sight in less than no time,” and the old Leatherstockings put his finger to his mouth and whistled. “I weally had no idea,” said the New Yorker, “that a goat could bend his fore leg so as to get his hoof up to his mouth to whistle in that wa j."—Texas Siftings.