Lightfoot Goes Ashore - Lightfoot the Leaping Goat - Epi. 9 - Kids Story for Children and Adults

Lightfoot, down in the hold of the canal boat, felt the craft slipping through the water easily. He was being carried with it. “Well, this is not so bad, for a start,” thought the goat. “It is much easier than riding in a wagon, as I once did.” When Lightfoot was a small goat, before he had come to live with Mike and his mother, he remembered being taken from one place to another, shut up in a box and carried in a wagon. The wagon jolted over the rough road, tossing Lightfoot from side to side and hurting his side. The motion of the canal boat was much easier, for there were no waves in the canal, except at times when a steam canal boat might pass, and even then the waves were not large enough to make the Sallie Jane bob about. Sallie Jane was the name of the boat on which Lightfoot was riding. “This is a nicer ride than I had in the wagon,” thought Lightfoot, “only I don’t know where I am going. But then,” he thought, “I didn’t know where I was going the other time. However, I came to a nice place—the shanty where Mike and his mother lived, and maybe I’ll go to a nice place... #story #kidsstory ✝️❣️🗺️ AcreSoft Story Classic acresoft.com cointr.ee/acresoft