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Henry's Goat's Blog Part 9

12 February

I’m down with this bug that’s been going around.

I’m weak and I’m sore, and I can’t make a sound.

He says I’ve caught flu, but I cannot agree –

The way that I look at it, flu has caught me.

I don’t eat my food, and that must be bad.

I’m staying indoors feeling terribly sad.

You never have seen such a sorrowful goat;

I see myself now, as ‘The Goat with a Throat’.

17 February

I’ve told him I want to be given a name;

I’ve wanted a name since the day that I came.

Without your own name you don’t know who you are;

You might be horse, or you might be a car.

I hardly can bear it: imagine the shame

To be known all your life as ‘The Goat with no Name’.

But not for much longer. He knows that I’ll pine

For a name, and he’ll give me a name that is mine.

I’m getting a name, and I’ve just had this thought –

I’ll give the same name to the boat that I bought.

A boat needs a name when it sails on the sea,

And it’s right that my boat should be named after me.

So now it’s all settled. We know what we’ll do,

For I know, and he knows, and so do you, too:

He’ll give me a name that’s a name for a goat,

And I’ll pass it on as the name for a boat.

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