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UTILITARIAN ZOOLOGY 



In the same place he neatly hits off the mental difference between 

 Puss and the Dog Binkie : 



" Pussy will rub my knees with her head, 



Pretending she loves me hard; 

 But the very minute I go to my bed, 



Pussy runs out in the yard. 

 And there she stays till the morning-light, 



So I know it is only pretend; 

 But Binkie^ he snores at my feet all night, 



And he is my Firstest Friend!" 







OXEN (Bos) AND BUFFALOES (BUBALUS). The domesticated 

 cattle of various parts of the world are no doubt, like the dogs. 



Fig. 1161. Hungarian Oxen 



descended from several wild stocks, and some of them would seem 

 to represent a mixture of strains. The two most notable oxen 

 that appear to have been domesticated in Europe during the 

 Newer Stone Age (Neolithic period) were the great Urus (Bos 

 primigenius), and a second much smaller species (B. longifrons). 

 It is often considered that the wild White Cattle of Chillingham 

 Park are the direct but dwarfed descendants of the former, while 

 the small dark cattle of Wales and the Scottish Highlands can 



