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country for drawing carts and waggons, and ploughing ; 
and its flesh is called beef. The skin is tanned and 
made into leather ; the hair is mixed with mortar ; the 
bones are used for knife-handles, chess-men, counters, 
and other things, as a substitute for ivory ; from its 
horns are made combs, and various other articles ; the 
fat is used in making candles; the blood in refining 
sugar : and, in short, every part has some important 
use. 
The common charge of stupidity urged against the Ox 
is wholly unfounded, as the following anecdote, recorded 
by Mr. Bell, will show. A cow, feeding in a pasture, 
the gate of which was open, was much annoyed by a 
mischievous boy, who amused himself by throwing stones 
at her. The peaceful animal, after enduring this 
patiently for some time, went up to him, and hooking 
the end of her horn into his clothes, carried him out of 
the field and laid him down in the road. She then re- 
turned calmly to her pasture, leaving him quit for a 
severe fright and a torn garment 
