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CHAPTER VIII. 



THE PIG. 



The pig and the sheep may be classed apart from 

 other domestic animals in one particular : man 

 makes but little use of them during their lifetime. 

 With the exception of the tribute of wool which 

 he exacts from the sheep — and occasionally the 

 contribution of bristles which he wrests with ori- 

 ental brutality from the reluctant boar — he chiefly 

 benefits by appointing himself their sole heir and 

 executor, and then arrangingf for their seasonable 

 demise. 



Beyond this unfortunate fellowship, the sheep 

 and the pig have but little in common either in 

 habits or history. The more we examine them 

 the more evident it becomes that they have been 

 developed among utterly different surroundings. 

 Yet in each case the special characteristics which 



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