. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE SHEEP 165 As for food, they prefer the short, fine grasses, nourishing and aromatic, which grow on dry, calcareous moun- tain slopes and rolling hillsides, not, however, disdaining those that gi'ow in saUne places, for they love salt, like the goat, the deer, the ass, and the horse. All sheep, but especially young lambs, like to climb the accli\- ities that they see about them. Their skill in this direction they ha\'e doubt- less derived from
. Our domestic animals, their habits, intelligence and usefulness; tr. from the French of Gos. De Voogt, by Katharine P. Wormeley;. Domestic animals. THE SHEEP 165 As for food, they prefer the short, fine grasses, nourishing and aromatic, which grow on dry, calcareous moun- tain slopes and rolling hillsides, not, however, disdaining those that gi'ow in saUne places, for they love salt, like the goat, the deer, the ass, and the horse. All sheep, but especially young lambs, like to climb the accli\- ities that they see about them. Their skill in this direction they ha\'e doubt- less derived from their ancestors, the wild mountain sheep. They ha\e never had, howcx'er, the agilit\' (if goats, which are native born to moun- tains and rocks. The sheep is so closely related to the goat that there is very little dif- ference in the skeletons of the two species, and what there is lies chiefly in the hollow profile of the face of the goat and the rounded profile of the sheep. In other respects, the sheep is unlike the goat in temperament, in character, in coat, in the shape of its horns, and in its peculiar odor, which differs in all. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Voogt, Gos de, 1863-1918; Wormeley, Katharine Prescott; Burkett, Charles William, 1873- ed. Boston, Ginn & Company
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