with great relish. The use of ewe's milk in preparing 

 cheese, butter, and curd is alluded to in the Book of Job. 

 The writers of profane history often speak of ewe's milk. 

 ' The ewe's milk cheese has a sharp, strong taste, that, like 

 Limberg cheese, commends itself to the taste of many 

 people. It is often mixed with cow's milk in the manufac- 

 ture of some brands of cheese, to give it a tartness not 

 given by cow's milk alone. The butter is a pale yellow, 

 less firm than cow's butter, and becomes rancid much 

 quicker. The milk is thicker than cow's milk, but in other 

 respects resembles it very much, both in taste and appear- 

 ance. 



The nomadic tribes of Asia live almost exclusively on the 

 flesh of sheep, and when a patriarch assembles his family to 

 the one meal of the day, it is generally around a large tray 

 containing a single sheep, which serves them for meat and 

 bread. That country is the birthplace of the sheep, as* it 

 was for man, and nearly all domestic animals. It is the 

 first animal that is spoken of in sacred writ as being kept 

 by man, and Abel, the twin brother of Cain, found favor in 

 the sight of God by offering up the firstlings of his flock, 

 far above the fruits of the earth that were brought by his 

 brother. It is often spoken of throughout the Scriptures, 

 and was the favorite sacrifice to Deity, and has in all ages 

 been esteemed the emblem of purity and innocence. Our 

 Saviour is called the " Lamb of God," and the " Good 

 Shepherd," giving a dignity to the position not vouchsafed 

 to any other vocation. 



Abraham, the father of the Jewish race, was a notable 

 shepherd, as were all the patriarchs of those days, and 

 Rachel, the beautiful daughter of Laban, and the mother of 

 Joseph, thought it no degradation to attend to her father's 

 flocks. Jacob, through a knowledge of physiology above 

 his contemporaries, was able to carry off a large portion of 

 the flocks of his father-in-law, and became a very wealthy 

 shepherd. It was while tending the flocks of Jacob that 



