In this journey my dog surpris’d a young kid, and seiz’d upon it, and I running in to take hold of it, caught it, and sav’d it alive from the dog: I had a great mind to bring it home if I could; for I had often been musing, whether it might not be possible to get a kid or two, and so raise a breed of tame goats, which might supply me when my powder and shot should be all spent.
The dog surprised a young kid
this reminds me of the scene in Ulysses with Stephen
