108 SHEEP. 



tune, at times, is occasioned by the animals 

 feeding too freely on growing clover, which 

 distends them to bursting and death, unless an 

 incision be seasonably performed. 



SHEEP. 



The sheep comes second in the rank of ani- 

 mals destined for the service of our race. The 

 Creator, with a power and wisdom infinitely 

 great, varies the qualities of His unnumbered 

 gifts. A sheep differs altogether from an ox ; 

 even more in nature than in size. Mutton, as 

 food, is a change, which the health, perhaps, as 

 well as the appetite, approves, and constitutes 

 a large portion of the meat with which our 

 tables are supplied. 



But the sheep does more for us in the way 

 of clothing than in food, by resigning to us, 

 yearly, its ample coat. Wool has a property 



