Word Stories(5)

Goat The goat is an ancient creature that has done much for man: Providing milk, meat, cheese and other good and useful things. Still, it has been kicked, beaten and condemned as a creature of dirt. But it continues to serve mankind in many useful ways, both large and small, even in the way of language. For example, some men wear goatees, thin whiskers that hang down from their chins like the whiskers on a gost.