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‘desty ; in this sense it is given to St. Agnes, of whom
Massillon said so beautifully, ‘Peu de pudeur ov il n’y a pas
de religion, peu de religion od il n’y a pas de pudeur*.’ ”

Bos.—The Ox. (Plate VI. the Syrian Ox.)

Cattle are generally distinguished as having smooth
hollow horns, directed sideways, and then curving upwards
or forwards; the body is of a thick and heavy form, and
the tail long, terminated by a tuft of hair. Mr. Bell, in
his ‘ History of British Quadrupeds,’ says, ‘Of all the ani-
mals which have been reduced into the immediate service
of man, the ox is, without exception, that to which he is
most indebted for the variety and extent of its means of
usefulness. The universal utility of the animal appears to
have been very soon detected, and we find, consequently,
that its domestication constituted one of the earliest
triumphs of human authority over the natural instincts and
habits of the brute creation. That this event took place
before the flood, and induced, even then, that propensity to
a pastoral life, which has ever been characteristic of man
in his less cultivated state, wherever the climate was such
as to encourage or permit it, we have the Sacred Writings
to attest ; for we are told that Jabel, the son of Lamech,

, * Mrs. Jameson’s ‘Legendary Art,’