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1 " Fine. The wife hates the goat. I traded for it for the novelty of goat’s milk, but it ran dry three weeks later. It is an old, cranky nanny who loves climbing on the roof and eating the thatch when she isn’t in the kitchen garden wreaking havoc.” Oris groaned. “I promised the wife I would kill it soon, but I can’t bear to do it to the creature. It can’t help it if it’s bored. "
― Rachel Rossano , Rumpled Rhett (Once Upon a Duchy, #3)
2 " He sounded far too eager, even for him. “What is wrong with it?” Oris climbed the pen gate, launched himself from the top, and landed in the dirt of the aisle. “Why do you ask? What makes you think anything is wrong with it?” He pulled an exaggerated grimace. I laughed. “No farmer willingly hands over animals unless there is something wrong with them. "