THE OX IN LIFE AND DEATH 



OST of us, even those who are most recklessly 

 carnivorous, feel a faint shame when we 

 think of the Noah's ark of animals which 

 we have eaten or are intending to eat. 

 Even if it be only so much automatic life, 

 for which we are responsible, the remem- 

 brance of the work we have compassed by the aid of such 

 fuel is not always satisfactory. A steam crank supplied 

 with it might well have done more. 



We take much, we give back little ; that is the way of 

 the world. Truly, if mankind could learn that every 

 breaking of bread was a sacrament indeed, and that the 

 duty of preserving life lies, not only with the giver, but 

 with the taker also, there would be more work done, and 

 less good material wasted. " Preserve thou it unto ever- 

 lasting life" is as binding on the eater of food, as on the 

 giver of it. At least we might remember more often than 

 we do, that life has died for us. 



Put into figures, the tale of that life is stupendous 

 indeed ! 



One year's supply of beef for our " right little, tight 

 little island ! " What a huge tonnage it comes to. Roughly 



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