Out Our Way: Along the Covenant Trail with Goliath

Out our way, the young sometimes have to learn things the hard way. Young Snowball was a frisky colt that ignored aunt Babe's warning about fences. Babe might run full tilt toward the paddock when the hay was being tossed in, but she slowed down and stopped before she hit the barbed wire. I don't recall seeing cuts and scars on her, so she must have learned from her elders about fences. But poor Snowball, like many other reckless youths, ignored her example, disdained her caution and charged full bore into the fence. It was not a pretty sight and ultimately a fatal one for a foolish colt.

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