. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. glanced coyly through a rift in the clouds, and—two of the oxen lay down! When a light plough is used, three or four beasts are sufficient, and they aredriven in single file, while the lucky ones that are not required look over the hedgeof the next field at their labouring kindred with an air of conscious superiority, nodoubt metaphorically patting themselves on the back. Oxen are more mtelligent than they are given credit for, and Champion (or Chomp-yin, in the vernacular), the leader of the span, knows his own and hisyoke-
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. glanced coyly through a rift in the clouds, and—two of the oxen lay down! When a light plough is used, three or four beasts are sufficient, and they aredriven in single file, while the lucky ones that are not required look over the hedgeof the next field at their labouring kindred with an air of conscious superiority, nodoubt metaphorically patting themselves on the back. Oxen are more mtelligent than they are given credit for, and Champion (or Chomp-yin, in the vernacular), the leader of the span, knows his own and hisyoke-mates work perfectly. It will be noticed in the illustration Turning the Plough,that the ox-man and boy are attending to the plough and wheel pair of oxen respectively,while the leaders are left to themselves. This is because Champion, the big redbeast, is there in charge—and well he knows it. No doubt eventually the use of oxen for draught purposes will quite die out, butI hope it will be some years yet before a fly can no longer quote, And so weplough Described aud Illustrated with Photographs by W. P. Dando, The beautiful pair of Cheetahs which Colonel Cheetah or J^^^i^oii presented to the Society Hunting are both dead. In its natural ^P^ • wild state, the cheetahs food consists of the smaller quadrupeds and such birds as it can catch alive; and when kept
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