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able material for clothing and foot wear. Do you think we 

 could be very comfortable without cattle, sheep, or goats ? To 

 this order also belong most of the Big Game animals of this 

 and other countries. But noivhere in the temperate zone is 

 there a fleeter runner than our Virginia Deer, larger game 

 than bur Bison, a more majestic creature than our Elk, or a 

 grander Monarch of the Wilderness than our Moose. Every 

 patriotic citizen ought to do his best to preserve these grand 

 beauties of our forests and mountains. Unless the laws regu- 

 lating the hunting of them are conscientiously observed, all of 

 these beautiful animals are in danger of becoming forever 

 extinct. 



Send to the Secretary of the Interior for a report on the Yellow- 

 stone Park. Read Shaler's book on Domesticated Animals. 



46. The Hog. 



MATERIAL : Pictures of wild boar, and of one or more breeds of 

 domestic hog ; a clean skull or jawbone, which can be obtained in 

 any household or from any butcher. Previously observed : Rooting, 

 blowing, grunting, and squealing of hogs ; rolling in mud ; how 

 other hogs are attracted by the squealing of one. 



Although the pig is generally not very highly spoken of, 

 it has nevertheless performed, and still performs, an im- 

 portant duty for man. It furnishes savory roasts and sau- 

 sages for millions of hungry mouths. As soon as a tribe 

 of savages becomes settled, their supply of meat has to be 

 largely obtained from domestic animals. For this purpose 

 man tamed an animal which largely supplied his wants, and 

 which has never been raised for any other purpose. Our 

 pigs are descended from the wild hogs of Europe and Asia. 

 The wild boar still lives in its native state in some of the 

 larger forests of continental Europe ; but in most places the 

 creatures have been exterminated, because they do very 

 much damage in fields which adjoin the forests. The 

 domestication took place at a very early period, and must 



