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of the origin of the froth, which is pro- 

 duced by the animal for the purpose of 

 protecting its tender skin against the vio- 

 lent heat of the sun. 



Whilst I was busied in these observa- 

 tions, a number of cattle came running 

 over the fields with the greatest velocity. 

 Even the most miserably lean cows, which 

 one would think scarcely able to drag one 

 leg after another, went skipping along like 

 does. Hie pauper cornua sumit^. They 

 twisted their tails round and round, and 

 went bounding and frisking about, till they 

 at length reached a puddle, where they 

 stopped all at once, as having found a sure 

 asylum against the enemy that had put 

 them to flight. Anxious to investigate 

 what it could be that excited such extra- 

 ordinary agitation, and prompted such ex- 

 ertions as neither the whip nor the fear of 

 immediate death could occasion, I disco- 

 vered it to be an insect which I had already 



* " Here the poor takes up horns," Alluding to 

 Horace's " addis cornua panperi." 



