CLASS MAMMALS: ORDER UKGULATA. 



77 



permits uninterrupted m ff- 118 - 



digestion. Changing its 

 coat of hair to suit the 

 season, it is easily accli- 

 mated; in tropical re- 

 gions the hair remaining 

 short and sparse, in 

 colder, lengthening to 

 three or four inches and 

 thickening so as to be- 

 come almost woolly. 



The Ass is generally 

 employed by the peasan- 

 try throughout the East. 

 Feeding upon coarser herbage than the horse, and being 

 more patient under abuse, it is better adapted to be the slave 

 of the poor.* 



The Zebra is the most elegant of quadrupeds, but all 

 attempts to domesticate it have failed. 



Fig. 119. 



Equus asm-us, Wild Ass. 



* It is common in European cities to see these animals driven every morning to 

 the door of the sick to be milked for their use. 



