Down North and Up Along 
straps costing three dollars and a half, so the 
owner of an ox told us. 
The Digby ox has not quite " bells on his 
fingers and rings on his toes, by which he 
makes music wherever he goes," as was the 
case with the young person in the nursery 
rhyme, but he has a bell on his neck and a 
little metal shoe on each of his toes, by which 
he makes as good music wandering about the 
stony byways in his hours of freedom as one 
frequently hears from more elaborate instru- 
ments. At least, it is never out of time or out 
of tune. 
One need not fear meeting our friend, for he 
is the gentlest ox in the world ; much hand- 
ling has made him that. He has lost the tra- 
dition of horns as weapons, and looks upon 
them only as a convenience for moving heavy 
loads for other people. 
Besides the ox-teams there are the horses 
drawing their low-swung trucks. If the Nova 
Scotian has invented his head yoke, he has cer- 
tainly borrowed his truck from his brother the 
" American," or is it vice versa ? for it is the 
same convenient means of transportation the 
Cape Cod man employs. The bottom of 
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