4 NOTES ON FIELDS AND CATTLE. 



course, with that familiar one of the human race, 

 into Mongolian, Malay, Circassian, Indian, Negro. 



However, whether we will it or no, we are called 

 upon to believe that there exists a cousinly bond 

 between the savage bull of Central Africa, lying 

 sulkily in wait for the unwary traveller ; the cunning 

 bison of the American savannah, so deeply ensconced 

 amidst the reeds of the sunken watercourse as to be 

 distinguishable only by its hump — the hunter's 

 prize ; and yon meek-eyed dapple milch cow there, 

 sheltering knee-deep in the brook beneath a verandah 

 of ash branches, reflectively whisking off the flies 

 from her flank with her tail — so utterly regardless, 

 meanwhile, of the aged female above, gathering 

 cresses for the hall, in the red cloak the young ladies 

 have given her. A certain amount of relationship, 

 such as Youatt suggests, one may imagine between 

 the sharp-eyed black group there, the like of which 

 Macgregor drove, that peer down so curiously from 

 beneath the thick fringe upon their foreheads at the 

 intrusive pedestrian ; between the long, active bull 

 — that is so apt to cut off or precipitate the salmon- 

 fisher's retreat by the tempest-torn passage of the 

 A we — and the Urus of the Hercynian forest, men- 

 tioned by Csesar — elephantine, untameable — whose 

 horns, polished and tipped with silver, they were 

 wont to use for the grace-cup at their solemn 

 festivals, and whose direct lineal representative is 

 probably the modern licheji-eating Lithuanian 

 auroch ; but, how ever the connection came between 

 the yak of Thibet and the improved Durham cow, it 

 is beyond us to conceive : the one there, fronting so 



