is called, the

the mouth.

quite large. Into this stomach or paunch, as it grass is sent as soon as it enters By this means she can gather her food in the daylight or in the cool of the day, and then when night comes or when the sun is hot, she can lie down and chew her cud.

The grass passes from the paunch into the second stomach, from which, in small parcels or balls, it is thrown up into the mouth. Here each mouthful is well chewed and mixed with saliva, and is then sent to the other stomachs, where it is thoroughly digested. Cows always appear happy when chewing their cud.

Besides the camel and the tame sheep and goats, all of which are chewers of cud, there are many kinds of wild animals which are cow-like. Among these are the buffaloes, the gnu, gnu, the wild sheep and goats, and the giraffe. It is a great comfort to these creatures to be able to pack away their food in a hurry and chew it at their leisure; indeed without this arrangement they could not live.

stomachs.

In the same manner do antelopes and deer enjoy the convenience of their pockets or large They are timid creatures because they have strong, fierce enemies. They must gather their food slyly, quickly, and be off. So, when the daylight is abroad and the ferocious flesh-eaters thirsting for their blood are asleep,

they slip softly into the open glades for their food. Quickly, nervously, with their ears and eyes open, they bite off their food and pack it away in their large pockets.

Then away they

secluded homes,

skip like the wind to their where they eat over their food in safety. For the same reason deer, where they are in fear of hunters, hide in the day-time, and venture out by night in search of food.

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THE buffalo lives in South Africa, and is cunning and dangerous. He hides in the bushes, and watches for the hunter. When the hunter is passing his hiding-place, out dashes this furious beast, often throwing his enemy into the air by the use of his great horns.

Our American bison, which is commonly called the buffalo, is not dangerous unless he is worried or wounded. The full-grown bull may weigh as heavy as two thousand pounds. In early times buffaloes abounded in the Eastern States. About a hundred years ago Daniel Boone shot a buffalo in Virginia. Bisons move in great herds, especially when they seek watering places. Thousands of them have been killed for their hides, and they are rapidly disappearing from the plains of the west.

Deer are shy, and seek safety from harm by the swiftness of their slender legs and nimble feet. The red deer is the common one of Europe. The male has branching horns or antlers. The young fawns, until the first shedding of their

coats, are spotted. Nearly like the red deer is the Virginia deer which abounds in the wild forests of America. The spotted deer, seen at the animal gardens, is the fallow deer of England or the axis deer of India. The scent of all animals

of this kind is very keen, and to avoid it the hunter sometimes climbs a tree where he waits for his game to pass.

The moose or elk is large, the male being as high as an ordinary horse. He has a great, ugly head, carrying immense horns, which are flattened out like broad palms. It is difficult to hunt the moose

with success. At the slightest crackling of the leaves he starts and is

away.

The reindeer of Lapland is more clumsy than the common red deer. The hoofs are large, and the hind

toes or dew claws

Red Deer.

There are both wild

almost touch the ground. and tame reindeer, and both kinds love to gather in great herds. Of the tame kind, the rich Northman sometimes has a herd of forty or fifty thousand. Harnessed to a sledge, the reindeer can travel over the frozen snow a hundred miles in a day.

To the Laplander his reindeer is horse, a cow, a sheep, and a goat.

milk cheese is made. The flesh is food. The skins and sinews are used for clothing, and the antlers are shaped into useful tools. In Kamchatka the natives saddle and ride the reindeer, and make him a beast of burden.

43. MOOSE-HUNTING.

IN the North-west Territory of British America, in the region of the Peace River, is a vast home of many kinds of wild beasts which have disappeared from the more settled portions of the country. Here abound the moose-shy creatures with mulish-looking heads and ears. They are sometimes caught in snow-yards or driven into corrals, but the regular hunt for the moose is difficult.

Captain Butler, who was well acquainted with the Peace-River country, describes the way in which the Indians hunt the moose.

No man save the Indian or the half Indian can hunt the moose with a chance of success. Hunting the moose in summer and winter is one thing; killing him in a snow-yard or running him down in deep snow is another. The two methods are as widely different as killing a salmon, which another man has hooked for you, is different from hooking one yourself.