{"collection":"African","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/afr/jas/jas040n.htm","path":"afr/jas/jas040n.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/afr/jas/jas040n.htm","text":"The story of Goat's Escape is a favorite in Jamaica. See Milne-Home, 58-60; 65-66. It falls into two parts. (1) Goat and Dog are pursued and Dog escapes over a river which Goat cannot\n{p. 258}\ncross. (2) Goat transforms himself into a stone, which the pursuer himself throws across the river. The introduction to the flight varies but (2) remains constant.\nCompare: Jacottet, note page 262; Parsons, Andros Island, 103 and note; Jones, 121-123; 133 -136.\nVersion (a). Compare Jones, and Milne-Home, 58-60.\nVersion (b). In Jekyll, 46-47, Puss gives the rats a ball and only those members of the family escape who attend to little Rat's warning, for he has heard the cat's song. Compare Chatelain, 189-191, and see note to number 86, where the little brother or sister discovers by the words of a song a treacherous intention.","title":"Note 40. Goat's Escape.","type":"page"}