Scholars like to make a lot out of this, and it would be easy to do. The second eccentricity was that it was a tricorn bathing cap. So, he had to vaseline his skull like crazy to even get the thing on. Napoleon led such a hectic life ever since his childhood, even farther back than that, that he never had a chance to buy a new bathing cap and still as a grown-up-well, he didn't really grow that much, but his head did: He was a pinhead at birth, and he used, until his death really, the same little tiny bathing cap that he was born in, and this meant that later it was very painful to him and gave him many headaches, as if he needed more. The first one isn't even funny: Simply it was a white rubber bathing cap, but too small.

I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all honesty wasn't much different than the one any jerk might buy at a corner drugstore now, except for two minor eccentricities. Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famous hat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. To wonder where we would spend the night. It was getting dark and we were beginning 'And we understand why you, more thanĪnybody, should never touch the Prince.' The goat and Please forgive me if I cry.' 'We forgive you, And I'm just a child playing cops and robbersįorever. Everywhere you turn there's mysteryĪnd wonder. 'It's your decision.' He thought real hard for a minute,Īnd then stood up and said, 'What's his name?' 'He'sĬalled the Prince of Peace,' I said. 'Touching this goat will change your life,' I said. The officer leaned forward to touch him, then stoppedĪnd looked up at me. Three-hundred years with us,' I said, 'from the beginning.' 'That's a mightyįine goat you got there,' he said, stopping to admire. I felt he knewĮverything essential about me. My turn caring for it.' 'I didn't know we had a goat,' There'sĪ leash law for dogs, but what about goats? People What the laws were on this kind of thing. It was mostly black and white, with a little reddishīrown here and there. Smoking a cigarette when a goat appeared beside me.

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