106 BRITISH QUADRUPEDS. 



The backely, as he is called, has his reward. He lives 

 in the same hut as his master, and by long habit gains 

 an affection for him. When the animal dies, a new 

 one is chosen in his place. He is then joined with the 

 veterans of his own kind, from whom he learns his art, 

 becomes social and diligent, and is taken into human 

 protection and friendship for life. 



THE COW. 



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 Of all animals, except man, according to Buffon, the 



cow appears to be most generally known. Abraham 

 brought a calf, tender and good, and milk for the angels, 

 under the oak at Mamre ; and numerous passages show 

 how generally acceptable and agreeable were such offer- 

 ings. When, too, Jehovah was about to make a cove- 

 nant with that patriarch, an heifer was one of the ap- 

 pointed victims. 



In the services of the Israelites, there was one sacri- 

 fice which differed from all others. A red heifer was 

 slain, not in the court of the tabernacle, but without the 

 camp \ and all the fat, the greater part of the blood, 



