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- ID
- b145
- Title
- "The Goat and the Stars."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 7
- Word Count
- 1640
- Publisher
- World Digest
- Publication Year
- 1939
- Topics
- Religion, Coming of Age
A young farm-boy innocently misinterprets a church announcement regarding Christmas Eve gifts ("No Gift too Large. None too Small. Give generously. This Means You.") and brings his favorite kid-goat as an offering, only to be met with laughter.
The story read by Kevin Fitzgerald was included in a BBC Radio broadcast on Christmas Eve in 1939.
In The Beauty of the Dead and Other Stories (1940), Twenty Tales (1951). Reprinted in World Digest (December 1951), English and American Short Stories of Today 2 (1986).
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