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CLOTHING OP ANIMALS. 



LESSON VIII. 



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CLOTHING OF ANIMALS. 



THE care of a beneficent Creator is beautifully 

 seen in the clothing with which he has provided 

 his creatures. This varies greatly in different 

 species, and in the same species, according as the 

 climate is hot or cold in which it lives; thus the 

 dogs of Guinea, and the sheep of Africa and India, 

 which are very hot countries, have so little wool 

 upon them that they may be said to be naked, 

 whilst the Siberian dog, and Iceland sheep, where 

 the climate is very cold, are covered with a thick 

 long fur. The covering of swine, in hot regions, 

 consists of nothing but bristles,; in colder districts, 

 however, there is, in addition to these, a quantity 

 of fine short wool next the skin. 



The same variations are seen amongst our own 

 domestic animals. The hair upon horses grows 



