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of primitive epochs, should remind the forgetful of the duties of 
gratitude. 
Drunkard, glutton, indolent, gambler, and robber, there is the 
beast. One need not be very strong on analogy to guess that this 
portrait reflects the valet of rich houses : a tippler, idler, and cor- 
rupt. This ferret, who drinks the blood of the rabbit and intox- 
icates himself when they forget to muzzle him, how like he is 
to the Frontin of the great lord, who would drink all his master’s 
chambertin, if the cellar- door were not well padlocked ! 
DOMESTIC ANIMALS PROPERLY SO CALLED— HOG, GOAT, RAM, 
CABIAI. 
HOG. 
If the Hog had chosen to continue to lend man the assistance 
of his snout, to discover and burrow out the truffle, I could have 
decided on placing it in the category of auxiliaries ; but it is evi- 
dent, that from the hour when it allowed the dog to supply its 
special function of discovering the truffle, it has lost all right to 
figure in this honorable class. There is besides another reason 
drawn from analogy, which compels me to refuse him this honor. 
The hog is the emblem of the miser, and the miser is only good 
after his death ; consequently it was not in the gifts of the hog to 
be useful to man during his life. 
For these causes I have only placed the name of the hog in this 
chapter of the animcils merely tame or domestic, postponing my 
special memoirs of it to the history of the original species. Wild 
Boar, among the beasts of the chase. 
THE GOAT. 
Domestic type of the wild goat of the Pyrenees, has never enjoy- 
ed a great reputation for sanctity in the Biblical legend any more 
than in the Greek mythology ; and I will not undertake to prove 
it any better than its reputation. It is very certain that the 
goat opens itself to slander by its dissolute morals, and that the 
