haedine

adjective /ˈhiːdaɪn/

Resembling in form or exhibiting the behaviour typical of a kid (i.e., a juvenile goat); compare , .

Then there was an old-clothes man of Hebraic origin ; a fully-costumed darkey<! [sic] waiter, dispensing delicious liquors from a tray ; countless clowns and placarded unfathomables<! [sic]  ; a poor, droning blind man ; a midnight reveller with the essential lamp post ; a valiant huntsman ; an escaped convict, № 27395 ; and — not least by any means — a goat. It was a real goat, real enough to have balking<! [sic] and butting tendencies. Ted Fritchey had him in charge, and underwent many a harrowing experience with his haedine protégé. This goat was intended to be prophetic of a victory over Chicago on the morrow — a capture of Chicago’s goat. Of the fulfillment<! [sic] of the prophecy, more hereafter. It is enough to say that on this afternoon our minds were all overborne with anxiety, and our hearts were all tight with goatish desire.