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Try as you may, you won't get this lady's goa'
PAT JOHNSON SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH BULLETIN
The mail still comes addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Goat. Three decades after arriving in Canada from South Africa, Moira Gort's accent is apparently still strong enough to cause some Canadians to mistake her surname for the name of the cud-chewing barnyard animal.
es or owls," said Mrs. Gort. "This is somewhat different. So when you find one, it's a bit of a triumph."
Goats of soapstone and cedar, Royal Doulton china and origami are dispersed throughout the home she shares with her husband John. The walls exhibit a Tibetan goat mask, Mrs. Gort's
Moira Gort poses with just a few of tier 281 goat artifacts.
The frequent misunderstanding led to jokes among her friends. And then somebody gave her a figurine of the much-maligned beast. That first goat has now expanded into a collection of 281 goats which fills every room of the Gorts' south Vancouver house and generates vigorous enthusiasm in the collector.
Mrs. Gort says her "whimsical sense of hvmior" has been the guiding force behind the hobby which includes goat artifacts ranging from elegant porcelain to kitsch.
"It took a long time to develop," she said, explaining that the search for goats is more of a challenge than collecting more traditionally adorable animals. "It's not the same as collecting hors-
Pat Johnson is a local freelance writer.
own framed stitch work of goats and examples of painter Marc Chagall's impressions of the animal. Straw goats, held together like old-fashioned brooms, are a Scandinavian Christmas tradition.
There is a special cabinet for the "good goats," and a special place in Mrs. Gort's heart for an "unusually ugly one."
Petroglyphic goats, a goat-shaped sake set and a flower pot in the shape of a goat, blend into the menagerie. A carved goat family comes in incrementally-increasing sizes like Russian nestling dolls. A plaque on the kitchen wall tells visitors that "one nice person and one old goat live here."
"No word on which one is which," said Mrs. Gort straight-faced. There are mountain goats in the collection, even though Mrs. Gort recently read in Na-