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commonly the property most likely to suffer 

 from thieves and dogs, notwithstanding the 

 utmost caution of their owner. 



The fat of sheep congeals more readily than 

 that of oxen, and is much used for tallow. The 

 skins, when dressed, form that useful substance 

 called wash-leather. The intestines form the 

 article erroneously called catgut, used for musi- 

 cal and mechanical purposes. The varieties of 

 this animal are also many. 



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Here is an animal, differing frpm the other 

 sorts exactly in those particulars which render 

 it capable of occupying a place in the service 

 of man, which, otherwise, must remain vacant 

 and unproductive ; with many of the poor it is 

 invaluable, as being the only animal of the nu- 

 merous farming herds that can subsist on the 



