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assistance. Take those animals that are known to accumulate fat readily 
and largely, as the opossum or tiie bear, or any other known to take on 
f:it readily, and you will find a peculiarly soft and mellow ‘touch.' 
Those breeds of swine, as the Chinese or Siamese, that are known to 
accumulate fat largely, as compared with some of the poorer wood 
brpeds., will offer good and ready illustrations. But probably the most 
ready illustration will be found in man himself. All that class of persons 
disposed to corpulency will be found to have a soft mellow touch, while 
those disposed to leanness will be found rigid and hard. This may bo 
readily recognized in shaking hands. Avery delicate lady' may some- 
times be found to have a hard hand as well as a sharp tongue. Smooth, 
soft skin will also ho found belonging to this class of persons. 
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The Skin. 
The skin should bo thick, soft mid elastic— fitting alike either a poem 
cr fat ox. A lean animal, with an inelastic skin stretched upon him, 
could not fatten for the want of space to expand in. But with an clasti i 
skin lie may be swelled to great dimensions in what seemed to be but i 
.covcrigg for his bones. The skin perforins very important functions i a 
the animal economy. It is not only a covering for all the parts beneath 
it — a protector against cold and heat, and all external causes of danger, 
But it is the seat of a vast system of minute blood vessels und capillaries, 
of exha hints and absorbents. A vast nervous tissue centers here that 
roiKlersithe skin sensitive in the highest degree. . The great vital worth 
an 4 importance of the skin may be readily appreciated by any injuries 
done it- The rapidity with which extensive burns destroy life, may 
serve as a sufficient illustration. ‘ Destroy my skin, and you shall huvo 
my b.ougs also.’ 
The Hair. 
The hair should be thick and fine, forming a protection against inclc-m - 
encies of weather. It is not sensitive, and is, therefore, a proper shield 
to the whole body, and it is an evidence of the wisdom displayed in the 
creation of this family of the animal kingdom, Unit, its hair— its outer gar- 
ment, against which all injuries must first . come— should bo without 
a C0,u P lete coat of mail, injuries to which cause no pain 
Fine hair is also an evidence of a finely organized skin, a skin exquisitely 
finished in its whole structure of minute vessels and tissues. A skm thus 
delicately organized is also evidence that other organs are alike con. 
•^cted. Nature, in all her parts, undoubtedly produces a correspond- 
enoe, so that if one part is of a peculiar structure, either fine or coarse, 
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