THE BOVINE DWELLERS OF OTHER LANDS, m 



and unguarded. The garden-gate, if it open into the 

 highway at any point, is never out of the mind of these 

 roadsters, or out of their calculations. They calculate 

 upon the chances of its being left open a certain number 

 of times in the season ; and if it be but once, and only for 

 tive minutes, your cabbage and sweet-corn suffer. 



15. "What villager, or countryman either, has not 

 been awakened at night by the squeaking and crunching 

 of those piratical jaws under the window or in the direc- 

 tion of the vegetable-patch ? I have had the cows, after 

 they had eaten up my garden, break into the stable where 

 my own milcher was tied, and gore her and devour her 

 meal. Yes, life presents but one absorbing problem to 

 the street-cow, and that is how to get into your garden." 





CHAPTER XXIX. 

 THE BOVINE DWELLERS OF OTHER LANDS. 



1. IT will be observed, in looking at the pictures of 

 buffalo and bison, that there is a striking difference be- 

 tween these two animals. There are but two species of 

 buffalo ; one is a native of India, the other of South Africa. 

 The buffalo is a rougher animal than our domestic ox, yet 

 in general form much like the ox. His peculiarities lie 

 mainly in the shape of the head and horns. The top of 

 his head is round or convex, and his horns curve down- 

 ward, outward, and upward. The bison, on the other 

 hand, has a singular hump over the shoulders, covered by 

 'a shaggy mane, a rounded head, and a short, upright 

 curved horn. The name buffalo was long ago given to 

 the Indian and African species, and, as will be seen, can 



