210 NATURAL HISTORY IN ANECDOTE.

and soup is made from his tail.” The value of the Ox ia
drawing waggons abroad may be gathered from the following
quotation from Mr. Gordon Cumming’s “Hunting Adventures
in South Africa.” “They (the oxen) are expected, unguided
by reins, to hold the rare-trodden roads, which occur through-
out the remoter parts of the Colony, either by day or night;
and so well trained are these sagacious animals, that it is
not uncommon to meet with a pair of fore-oxen which will,
of their own accord, hold the “spoor” or track of a single
waggon, which has perhaps crossed a plain six months pre-
viously.”

The Cow. The Cow after supplying enormous quantities
of milk during life is almost as valuable as the Ox when
dead. It is from the Cow moreover that we get the lymph
used in vaccination, which has proved such a wonderful
safeguard against small-pox. In its quiet way the Cow some-
times shows sagacity. Mr. Bell gives us the following illustra-
tion:--“A cow which was feeding tranquilly in a pasture, the
gate of which was open to the road, was much annoyed by
a mischievous boy who amused himself by throwing stones
at the peaceful animal, which, after bearing with his impertinence
for some time, at length went up to him, hooked the end
of her horn into his clothes, and-lifting him from the ground,
carried him out of the field and laid him down in the road.
She then calmly returned to her pasture, leaving him quit
with a severe fright and a torn garment.” Cows have been
taught to graze close to forbidden crops without yielding to
the temptation to eat them..

The Pride A writer in Frank Leslie’s popular monthly gives

ofa Cow. an amusing instance of vanity as shown by a
cow. This cow, he was told, claimed precedence in all casés;
she always went ahead of the herd and claimed the best piece
of pasture as her exclusive domain. So far did she carry
het pretensions, that if any of the other cows entered the
stable before her, she would refuse to follow. Anxious to