WILD HABITS STILL LINGER. 105 



For purposes of defence, sheep in the wild 

 state developed great strength of neck and the 

 hardest of hard heads. 



All of you have seen two quite young lambs 

 butt each other's head with very considerable force. 



And if two powerful rams get together, they will 

 charge blindly at one another, at several yards' 

 distance. Down will go their heads, the butting 

 of their two skulls sounding like a clap of thunder. 

 The recoil will drive them right backwards, but 

 up they will get and go for each 'other again till 

 one is the victor, or the neck of one is broken. 



The Sheep of the Farm. 



Man thinks for himself, he looks around, 

 observes, then ponders on what he has seen, and 

 then further he considers how can this or that 

 in wild nature be made useful to him. How can 

 he use it so that his life may be made more 

 comfortable and happy. 



And so some very early man must have 

 observed the covering of a wild sheep's back, and 

 it must have occurred to him that a sheep- 

 skin, with its covering, would be a very warm 

 protection for men against the cold of winter. 

 And so he tried the experiment, and the ex- 

 periment was successful, and the successful 

 experiment caused men to capture and domes- 

 ticate the sheep. 



