1. On Sark, this man struggled between good and evil. He grew angelic wings. Next day, they had gone. He was now in the hands of the Great Goat instead of the Great Pal. Two small horns pushed through his temples. Three days later they were an inch long, curling beneath a Basque beret he felt forced to wear in public.
2. This animal once lived in the African jungle. It had a head at each end, with sharp horns. Not one was ever caught — whichever way hunters sneaked up, it was always facing them, horns at the ready.
3. Old and ill, he returned to Yorkshire and sought help from a prioress. She opened a vein to let blood, but loosened the tie as he slept. Bleeding to death, he awoke. He drew out his bugle horn and for the last time blew the old call “Wa-so-hoa”.
4. She was a most uncultured girl. “Alas, the young illiterate Went blindly forward to her fate. And ignorantly climbed the gate! Now happily the Bull that day Was rather in the mood for play Than goring through and through. He tossed her lightly with his horns Into a prickly hedge of thorns.”
5. The daughter of the King of Crete fed the infant Zeus with goat’s milk. In gratitude he gave her one of the goat’s horns, saying its possessor should always have everything they desired.
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6. To celebrate Flora’s wedding, the horns of all the cows were wreathed by Adam with garlands of wallflowers. This animal proudly stamped around, sporting a rope of geraniums and wallflowers.
7. On the shores of the Red Sea, a man baked a cake. But from the Altogether Uninhabited Interior came this beast with no manners. He upset the stove, spiked the cake on his horn, then went away and ate it. The man took his revenge.