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beefy I will merely request my young friends 

 to ask themselves the question at their usual 

 dinner hour. That portion of the fat which is 

 not eaten with the flesh, helps to form candles 

 and soap. The blood is employed largely in 

 the purification of sugar, and in some other 

 manufacturing processes. Of the bones are 

 made knife and fork handles. The skin inter- 

 poses, in the form of leather, between the 

 tender foot of man and the harsh or humid 

 soil. The hair serves, in the mixture of mortar, 

 for plasterers, to give it a tenacity, or power of 

 holding together, which is most important for 

 walls so covered; the hoofs and horns, dis- 

 solved by heat, are moulded into almost any 

 form for various implements of incessant utility 

 such as handles, combs, and Ian thorn panes. 

 The clippings, parings, and refuse of the hide, 

 and other parts, are boiled down to a jelly, 



