His water also kept three little goats alive - their milk was the children's only source of protein, minerals and vitamins.

Visyr didn't want to think about what all those little goat- and pig-yards would smell like when summer came.

"Who is this miserable little tattooed goat, may I ask?"

By the final day of the fair on Aug. 10, the little goat was shaking and sickly.

The jury might have even thought I was baiting the kid, trying to get his pathetic little goat.

"She had this goat with her, a little black goat," he recalled.

"A woman came to sell me a little goat's milk while you were away."

Three little goats who have lost their way.

I was more than a little tired and hungry, too, having had nothing to eat since a little goat's milk at dawn.