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brindled j and small, upright, sharp-pointed horns, which are 

 white and black. Being hardy, and having a touch of rude 

 nature in them, they are well adapted for a life in cold and 

 bleak regions. They receive their name from their crossing 

 the Kyloes, or ferries, when they are driven southward into the 

 English counties, where numbers of them are fattened for 

 slaughter, their beef being highly esteemed by John Bull. 



THE PRIZE Ox. 



By a prize ox is meant one of any breed that has received 

 a premium for having been fattened till it has attained a 

 monstrous bulk. The Chatsworth Ox, which was grazed and 

 fattened on the Duke of Devonshire's luxuriant estate, weighed 

 220 stone, or 3080 pounds, and was pronounced by the best 

 judges of stock to be the largest and finest of his age (four 

 years and a half) ever grazed in England. The six-years old 

 Brother Jonathan, brought from New York, and lately exhibited 

 in Piccadilly, weighed 4000 Ibs ; was ten feet nine inches in 

 circumference ; five feet eleven inches in height ; and eleven 

 feet ten inches in length. " The alleged beauty of these unhappy 



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