OP QUADRUPEDS. 
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SHEEP. 
This animal, so cowardly in itself, so des- 
titute in sentiment, is the most precious and 
the most useful of our domestic animals. It 
not only supplies our greatest necessities, 
hut, at the same time, furnishes us with food 
and clothing. Without enumerating the 
particular advantages we have from the skin, 
and even the bowels and bones, we are con- 
vinced that nature has given it nothing but 
what is useful to man. 
The male, which is called the Ram, is 
known by his horns, which show themselves 
in the first year. This animal was so much 
esteemed for his multifarious good qualities, 
that he obtained the first place among the 
signs of the Zodiac. 
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