THE ANIMAL KINGDOM. 



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year ; each pair of antlers being larger, and having more 

 branches than the former ones. And it is a remarkable 

 fact, that in the Reindeer, which inhabits the coldest 



climates, the antlers are flattened, and are used by the 

 animals as shovels to clear away the snow so as to find 

 its food. 



Let us now consider the operation of Rumination, and 

 the construction of the organs by which it is carried on, 



