. The popular natural history . Zoology. THE CASHMIR GOAT. m sprang as to appear like different species. For the present, we will turn to the common Goat of Europe, with which we are all so familiar. This animal is often seen domesticated, especially in and about stables, as there is a prevalent idea that the rank smell of the Goat is beneficial to horses. Be this as it may, the animal seems quite at home in a stable, and a very firm friendship often arises between the Goat and one of the horses. Sometimes it gets so petted by the frequenters of the stables, that it becomes presump- tuous, and
. The popular natural history . Zoology. THE CASHMIR GOAT. m sprang as to appear like different species. For the present, we will turn to the common Goat of Europe, with which we are all so familiar. This animal is often seen domesticated, especially in and about stables, as there is a prevalent idea that the rank smell of the Goat is beneficial to horses. Be this as it may, the animal seems quite at home in a stable, and a very firm friendship often arises between the Goat and one of the horses. Sometimes it gets so petted by the frequenters of the stables, that it becomes presump- tuous, and assaults any one whom it may not happen to recognise as a friend. Happily, a Goat, however belligerent he may be, is easily conquered if his beard pan only be grasped, and when he is thus captured, he yields at once to his conqueror, assumes a downcast air and bleats in a very pitiful tone, as if asking for mercy. In its wild state the Goat is a fleet and agile animal, delighting in rocks and precipitous localities, and treading their giddy heights with a foot as sure and an eye as steady as that of the chamois or ibex. Even in domesti-. CASHMIR GOAT. cated life, this love of clambering is never eradicated, and wherever may be an accessible roof, or rock, or even a hill, there the Goat may be generally found. The varieties of the Goat are almost numberless, and it will be impossible to engrave, or even to notice, more than one or two of the most prominent examples. One of the most valuable of these varieties is the celebrated Cashmir Goat, whose soft silky hair furnishes material for the soft and costly fabrics which are so highly valued in all civilized lands. This animal is a native of Thibet and the neighbouring locality, the Cashmir shawls are not manufactured in the same land which supplies the N 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrati
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