THE ASS. 37

his education in his stubbornness and
stupidity. If well treated, he is strongly
attached to his master, and no female
shows more fond, steady affection for her
young. The Ass is four years in growing,
and lives twenty-five or thirty. The milk
of the Assis medicinal. The flesh of young
wild asses is said to be delicate. The
skin is manufactured into thick vellum,
and into shagreen. The mule is a creature
springing from an union of the ass with
the mare, which produces large mules, or
of the horse with the she-ass, which pro-
duces small mules. The first is the best,
and most generally used: it has the legs
and shape of the horse, the ears, the tail,
and the cross of the Ass.