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OUR DOMESTIC ANIMALS 



a prey to suffering-, death, and putrefaction, existing at the period of the lake villages of 



We might understand such cruelt}' in some Switzerland were precisely the same as those 



poor creature trying to earn a living, but it of to-day, which proves that until now man 



ought never to enter the minds of educated has not thought it worth while to improve this 



men, or at least those who regard themselves animal species. There is little or no difference 



as such. We must, however, add that the between the exteriors of the Norwegian, Swiss, 



chamois living on the highest, wildest, and Spanish, and Grecian goats. Everywhere we 



most inaccessible rocks has often sold his life find them with or without horns, and with long 



dear at the cost of that of many a hunter. or short hair, striped with many discordant 



Biu.(u.AX Goats with Horns 



The chamois mates successful])' with the colors 

 domestic goat, and is easih' tamed; but its pas- 

 sion for climbing never dies, and its progeny 



inherit it. 



IV. The Domhstic Go,\t 

 Up to the present time little ])ains have 



)-ellow, red, white, reddish brown, 

 gray, and black. Goats of a single color are 

 rarely found, unless they ha\"e come through' 

 the hands f)f breeders who have bred them 

 with that idea in view. 



The S7i'!ss goat of ilw Saiiicu is the chief 

 species of central Europe. It comes from 



been taken to di\'ide tlie tamed goats into the valleys of the Sarnen and the Simmen, 



species, but of late ]iersons are beginning and is characterized b)- its color, which is 



more and more to distinguish and impro\'e the wholly white, by the absence of horns, and 



different breeds. It is a fact that the goats especially by its great production of milk. 



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