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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) anp Burratoes (Busatus).—The domesticated 
cattle of various parts of the world are no doubt, like the dogs. 
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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 (2. dongifrons). 
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 
