SUFFOLK BULL. 
take possession of the banquet, or permit her inferiors to eat at peace. Should a younger 
animal commit a breach of etiquette by intringing any of the tacit rules which have been 
in force throughout Cowdom from time immemorial, the delinquent is butted at and 
punished until it returns to its allegiance. 
To watch a calf through its various phases of existence is a most amusing employ ment. 
When the young animal is introduced for the first time into the farmyard, s she is treated in 
the most supercilious manner by the previous occupants, who look w ith an air of supreme 
contempt upon the new comer. She is pushed aside by all her predecessors, and soon 
learns to follow humbly in the wake of her companions. She cannot even venture to 
take possession of a food-rack until all the others have begun their meal. So matters go 
on for a time, until she has attained a larger growth, and a younger calf is turned into 
the yard. She now in her turn plays the tyrant over the new comer, and receives no 
small accession of dignity from the fact of having a follower, instead of bringing up the 
rear in her own person. In process of time she makes her way to the head of the yard 
by virtue of seniority, and is then happy in the supreme rule which she enjoys. 
Sometimes a three-parts grown heifer is introduced into a farmyard, and im that case, 
the new comer refuses to take her place below all the others, unless she is absolutely 
compelled to do so by main force. There is generally a considerable amount of fighting 
before such an animal finds her level, but w hen she has discovered her superiors and her 
subordinates, she quietly settles down in her place, and does not attempt to rise otherwise 
than by legitimate seniority. 
As the Oxen, in common with the sheep, camels, giraffe, and deer, require a large 
amount of vegetable food, and are, while in their native regions, subject to innumerable 
