DOMESTICATED ANIMALS 



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Horns are their weapons of defense. But weapons 

 of defense are useless in human pastures and 

 barns, where no enemies exist. 



8. Sheep and Goats. 



Sheep and goats are mountaineers. They are 

 found in most continents, usually in high, inac- 

 cessible mountain regions. They are inhabitants 

 of the sky. They have been driven up into these 

 regions of the sky by the murderous mouths of 

 the wolves and bears. Up in this world of crags 



"CHILDREN OF THE SKY" 



and cold they can leap from rock to rock and live 

 where the wolf and bear cannot come. 



The wild ancestors of domesticated sheep and 

 goats were not Americans, but Asiatics. Asia 

 was the cradle of man and of human civilization. 

 It was in Asia that man first acquired the intelli- 

 gence to domesticate his fellow beings. And this 

 fact accounts for the long list of domesticated an- 

 imals hailing from Asia. In Asia, man for a long 

 time carried on exclusively the domesticating 

 business. 



