9 Chickweed Lane by Brooke McEldowney for May 23, 2007

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Edda stepped back and surveyed the animal - to which he said, "What...?" "You don't," said Edda, "look like a goat at all." "And you," he said, "don't look like a Barbary ape." "I am not a Barbary ape," said Edda. "Could have fooled me," he muttered. "It's just that I've heard," said Edda, "of people making goats grow single horns like yours." The creature snorted. "What are people?" he said. "I am," said Edda. "That is to say, I'm a person." "And does this confer upon you the right to cruelly disfigure goats?" his voice sneered. "Um, no," said Edda. "Hm," said the creature.