CHAPTER XXXI 



SHEEP AND SWINE 



And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. 



GENESIS iv. 2. 



300. Where Sheep came From. The wild ancestors of 

 the horse and ox are no longer in existence ; but the parent 

 stock from which our sheep descended can still be found 



A FLOCK OF SHEEP. 



in the mountains of Kamchatka, Barbary, and Greece. 

 From the earliest times, sheep have been domesticated. 

 Abraham measured his wealth in sheep and cattle. And 

 as " The shepherds abided in the fields, keeping watch 

 over their flocks by night," the angels sang the Good Will 

 Song. On his second voyage to America, in 1493, Colum- 

 bus brought over the sheep that became the ancestors of 



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