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they fight, the bantam, in sheer vexation, catches the Shanghai 

 by the tail to keep up with him in his retreat. 



So of cattle — the breeds that are best adapted to the butcher, 

 like the Durhams, are slow and heavy moulded, with indistinct 

 muscles, forming " well moulded steaks," while the breeds most 

 fit for draft, like the Devonshires, are light limbed, and quick in 

 movement, with a corresponding development of the nervous sys- 

 tem, making them intelligent. For milking purposes, we should 

 look for a breed with a large udder, and as the bulk of the milk 

 is a definite part of that of the food, with a corresponding abdo- 

 men. As the milk is intended by nature for the support of the 

 young, the females of such breed will be impatient of separation 

 from the offspring, while the males will be equally disposed at 

 certain seasons to rove. It is not strange then, that such breeds 

 are apt to be breachy. 



When the domestic animals escape from the control of man 

 into such circumstances as allow them to subsist independentlyj 

 they do not as was formerly supposed, revert to a common type, 

 but rather to the type best adapted to their new condition. Thus 

 horses, and dogs, and cattle, and swine running wild in different 

 parts of the earth, though remaining of one species are always of 

 different varieties. Swine escaping into the woods in this state, 

 as they sometimes do, and live a year or two when mast is plenty, 

 breed towards a uniform white color. In some of the tropical 

 parts of this continent they become black, while in those parts 

 inhabited by peccari they take a like reddish color. 



The southeasterly branches of the head waters of the Delaware 

 river, in this State, rise in a wilderness 100 miles long, by 40 or 

 50 wide. Bears, wolves, deer and trout are still common in this 

 region. Into this wilderness the farmers living on its border have 

 f )r a long time been in the habit of driving swine, during both 

 spring and fall, in years when the beech yielded a plentiful crop. 

 The animals locate for themselves a camp, and make nests out of 

 dry leaves, and return to it every night. Under the necessity of 

 using their snouts to find the fruit, by removing the thick layer 

 of leaves — as it is with them in ballad parlance, " root hog or 

 die," — the muscles of the neck grow thick, and their insertion in 



