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country for drawing carts and waggons, and ploughing ; 

 and its flesh is called beef. The skin is tanned and 

 made into leather ; the hair is mixed with mortar ; the 

 bones are used for knife-handles, chess-men, counters, 

 and other things, as a substitute for ivory ; from its 

 horns are made combs, and various other articles ; the 

 fat is used in making candles; the blood in refining 

 sugar : and, in short, every part has some important 

 use. 



The common charge of stupidity urged against the Ox 

 is wholly unfounded, as the folio wing anecdote, recorded 

 by Mr. Bell, will show. A cow, feeding in a pasture, 

 the gate of which was open, was much annoyed by a 

 mischievous boy, who amused himself by throwing stones 

 at her. The peaceful animal, after enduring this 

 patiently for some time, went up to him, and hooking 

 the end of her horn into his clothes, carried him out of 

 the field and laid him clown in the road. She then re- 

 turned calmly to her pasture, leaving him quit for a 

 severe fright and a torn garment 



