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take possession of the banquet, or permit her inferiors to eat at peace. Should a 

 younger animal commit a breach of etiquette by infringing any of the tacit rules which 

 have been in force throughout Cowdom from time immemorial, the delinquent is butted 

 at and punished until it returns to its allegiance. 



To watch a calf through its various phases of existence is a most amusing employ- 

 ment. When the young animal is introduced for the first time into the farm-yard, she 

 is treated in the most supercilious manner by the previous occupants, who look with an 

 air of supreme contempt upon the new-comer. She is pushed aside by all her predeces- 

 sors, and soon learns to follow humbly in the wake of her companions. She cannot 

 even venture to take possession of a food-rack until all the others have begun their meal. 

 So matters go on for a time, until she has attained a larger growth, and a younger calf is 



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turned into the yard. She now in her turn plays the tyrant over the new-comer, and 

 receives no small accession of dignity from the fact of having a follower, instead of 

 bringing up the rear in her own person. In process of time she makes her way to the head 

 of the yard by virtue of seniority, and is then happy in the supreme rule which she enjoys. 



Sometimes a three-parts grown heifer is introduced into a farmyard, and in that case, 

 the new-comer refuses to take her place below all the others, unless she is absolutely 

 compelled to do so by main force. There is generally a considerable amount of fighting 

 before such an animal finds her level, but when she has discovered her superiors and her 

 subordinates, she quietly settles down in her place, and does not attempt to rise other- 

 wise than by legitimate seniority. 



As the Oxen, in common with the sheep, camels, giraffe, and deer, require a large 

 amount of vegetable food, and are, while in their native regions, subject to innumerable 



