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prolific than its wild parent form; yet the 

 changes seem to have been induced merely by 

 putting it under the more favorable environ- 

 ment in cultivation. The Concord grape 

 achieved its present size and lusciousness at 

 once on being brought into the garden from the 

 wild. It is quite evident, then, that men may 

 bring animals and plants under domestication 

 either with or without producing marked 

 changes in them. It is to be noted that after 

 they are changed they revert to their wild 

 condition again when returned to the state of 

 nature. 



In 1 79 1 there was born on the place of a 

 Massachusetts farmer named Seth Wright a 

 queer-looking lamb with short bowlegs and 

 a long sagging body like a dachshund. Now 

 Seth Wright had been much annoyed by his 

 sheep jumping pasture fences. With true 

 Yankee insight he recognized the value of this 

 bandy-legged lamb; it might become the 

 progenitor of a breed that could not hurdle even 

 a low fence, and high rail fences were built only 

 with effort. To make a long story short, 



