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comfortably upon whatever grass or small plants and 

 leaves they find in rocky, hilly pastures, -— places 

 where cattle and horses could not live. In Scotland 

 sheep graze in such rocky country that the shepherd 

 hunself cannot follow them; he has to depend upon 

 the sheep dog to gather the sheep and bring them 

 into the fold. 



Goats not only furnish haii' for cloth and their 

 flesh for food, but they also give milk as cows do. 

 Our cows need special care and food of fresh grass 

 and hay if they are to give us good milk, but goats 

 need little food, and that is of the simplest kind that 

 scarcely any other animal would eat. They eat such 

 strange things for food that people even joke about 

 their living upon the old tin cans that are tlii'own 

 about in uncared-for places. 



In many parts of Europe and Asia people live upon 

 the milk of the goat, and the butter and cheese which 

 are made from it. These, with bread and a few onions, 

 make the principal food of the poorer people of Italy. 

 The camel is another animal which men could 

 not do without. Have you ever seen one? They are 

 strange-looking creatures, surely, not nearly so at- 

 tractive to us as our horses. Yet where the camels 

 live the people love them as we do our pet horses, and 

 in their eyes they seem quite as graceful. It is no 

 wonder that they feel as they do toward their camels, 

 for they are as useful as any creature that man has 

 ever tamed. Long caravans of them travel across 

 the great deserts and over the mountains in Asia 

 and Africa, carrying merchandise from one place to 

 another. 



