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stock farms for horses are found all over the world, and 

 thousands, yes millions, of dollars are spent in experiment- 

 ing with this animal to produce a better breed, or to reduce 

 trotting, running, or pacing records a few seconds, and 

 great fortunes are paid for the best and fastest horses. In 

 France, the horse is eaten ; and in all civilized nations it 

 is used as a beast of burden. 



Africa is famed for its large game among mammals, of 

 which the elephant is the largest. In former years vast 



Fig. 27. — Natives carrying Elephant 1 usks. 



sums have been made by the dealers in tusks, and ele- 

 phants have been slaughtered very much as was the 

 buffalo, and had not the various governments interfered 

 they would have been wiped out of existence. The hide 

 of the elephant is used for leather, its feet are used as seats, 

 and the tusks are employed in the manufacture of billiard 

 balls and other objects, while the flesh is valued by the 

 natives. For every tusk that is brought to the coast, it is 

 said several slaves lose their lives. 



