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CHAPTEE III. 



MOKE LIVE-STOCK A HORSE AND A PIG. WHICH IS 



THE NOBLER ANIMAL? 



order to live in the country, one must own a 

 horse ; in order to keep house in the country, one 

 must own a pig. In popular estimation, the animal 

 creation stand in relation to man in the following or 

 der cows, horses, pigs, dogs. For the existence of a 

 large portion of the race of infants in these modern 

 days of tight lacing and slender limbs, a cow is a 

 prime necessity ; for utility in transferring one s self 

 from place to place between which there is no rail 

 road, or if there is, and the person s life is precious 

 in his own eyes, a horse is extremely useful ; for as 

 sociation in contemplative moments and suggestive- 

 ness of comfortable ideas, a pig is very pleasant ; for 

 the higher enjoyments of life, for the sports of the 

 field and wood, the dog takes first rank. 



I have already described the cow. My dog, like 

 those of all my friends, is the best in the world, and 



