Krag, the Kootenay Ram 



fellow. Their heads slipped past, and now it 

 was head to shoulder, both pounding away. 

 At first Nubbins was being forced back; but 

 soon his unusual sprouts of horns did good ser- 

 vice, and after getting one or two punches in 

 his ribs from them, the bully turned and ran. 

 The others, standing round, realized that the 

 newcomer was fit. They received him as one __ 

 of their number, and the hazing of Nubbins was 

 ended. '«a 



It is quite common to hear conventionality 

 and social rules derided as though they were 

 silly man-made tyrannies. They are really im- 

 portant laws that, like gravitation, were here 

 before human society began, and shaped it 

 when it came. In all wild animals we see them 

 grown with the mental growth of the species. 

 When a new Hen or Cow appears in the barn- 

 yard, she must find her level. She must take 

 rank exactly according to the sum of her powers. 

 Those already there have long ago ranged 

 themselves in a scale of precedence ; no one can 

 climb in this scale without fighting all those 



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