Read the excerpt from "The Goatherd and the Wild Goats.” He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own. When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The Goatherd scolded them for their ingratitude in leaving him, when during the storm he had taken more care of them than of his own herd. One of them, turning about, said to him: "That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.” What is the central idea of this excerpt?

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Write your own version on it. you can take away the fairy tale ending and replace it with a more realistic one. kinda confused on this one can you all me with this ik it only 20 points but its all i got. the three little kittens three little kittens they lost their mittens, and they began to cry, oh, mother dear, we sadly fear our mittens we have lost. what! lost your mittens, you naughty kittens! then you shall have no pie. mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. no, you shall have no pie. the three little kittens they found their mittens, and they began to cry, oh, mother dear, see here, see here, our mittens we have found! put on your mittens, you silly kittens, and you shall have some pie. purr-r, purr-r, purr-r, oh, let us have some pie. the three little kittens put on their mittens, and soon ate up the pie; oh, mother dear, we much fear our mittens we have soiled. what! soiled your mittens, you naughty kittens! then they began to sigh, mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. then they began to sigh. the three little kittens they washed their mittens, and hung them out to dry; oh! mother dear, do you not hear, the mittens we have washed! what! washed your mittens, then you’re good kittens, but i smell a rat close by. mee-ow, mee-ow, mee-ow. we smell a rat close by.

The fact that ambrose bierce actually fought in the civil war has what impact on his writing in the occurrence at owl creek bridge