The best witch leading a nun and monk on a flying black goat that we've seen all week.  From Die Muskete, 1919.

It's been said that "goats are like people" (Edith Buck, Rendezvous with the Rock).  We find our evidence in The Early Herdsmen by Katherine Elizabeth Dopp, 1923.

From a 1960 voting ad, with slight alterations.  (By the way, you can be the goat even if -- perhaps especially if -- you sit out elections as we do.)

How many times have we been beleaguered by eagles and goats simultaneously?  From Castle Rackrent and The Absentee by Maria Edgeworth, 1895.

From Petri Costalij Pegma, 1555.  Speaking of which, what exactly are a snowball's chances in hell?  See A Snowball's Chance in Hell.

Goats pull a chariot of thread spools, from 1878.

From Prof. Oddfellow's sketchbook.  (Previously, we examined a Hermetic secret from Ithell Colquhoun's Goose of Hermogenes, as well as her takes on volcanoes, the two fish that swim in our sea, and how the sea's voice can only be heard by the ear of a shell.)

"Mary had a little lamb, but in Bethel, O. we like goats."

From Some Adventures of Jack & Jill by Barbara Yechton and illustrated by Anna M. Upjohn, 1905.

"American Federation of Butters" certificate of entitlement to butt in all conversations, c. 1908.

She'll leave the old goat to take care of the poor little lambs.  A scan by the Wellcome Library, London.

Here's a Swiss alternative to the Buddhists' "chop wood, carry water":  "Chop wood, gather edelweiss, look after goats."  From "Wooden Tony: An Anyhow Story" in English Illustrated, 1890.

From The Forester yearbook of Lake Forest University, 1911.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

A card from Atkinson's Comedy Company, scanned by the Boston Public LIbrary.

From Purdue University's Debris yearbook, 1899.  See How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.