Horse, donkey, mule, zebrawhat you will, but not a single fibre of ox.

I inspected this meat raw, sir, to-day, on the butcher's stall, and the minute ova perceptible in it were those of the horse gad-fly, not the ox gad-fly, sir.

One wheel had fallen from the wagon, and the wagonmaster was jumping up and down, shouting angry expletives at the ox.

"And can I get that ox, too?" "You can get me, all right," said the ox.

Ox-tail Soup.

The remains of ox-tail soup from Sunday.

Ox-tail Soup.

Ox-tail Soup. Crimped Salmon.

Lo, He slumbers in His manger, Where the hornèd oxen fed; Peace, my darling: here's no danger, Here's no ox a-near thy bed. 'Twas to save thee, child, from dying.

A JEALOUS OX XXXI.

And that white ox, Hattieyou remember my telling you about him.

The ox bellowed, and turned his great black eyes on my father, and I fell in a faint.

I could not come in the ox-cart because the oxen were in the field, and every day since I heard of your accident your uncle has had to drive your aunt to Portland on some business.

With bruised and aching knuckles to prove that the blow had been one to stun an ox, Lanyard believed it safe to count Dupont hors de combat, for a time at least.

" At last, however, when the magistrates, the clergy and many of the principal citizens entreated him, the proud old governor, who had "a heart as big as an ox, and a head that would have set adamant to scorn," consented to capitulate.

Whaley went down and out of consciousness like an ox that has been pole-axed.

Harness these men in precedents, and whip them through the same action with penalties, and they will gain only such discipline as the ox obtains in the furrow and the horse between the thills.

Ruminants Camels, Llamas, Chevrotains, Giraffe, Antelopes, Sheep, Goats, Musk-ox, Oxen, Deer.

The true deer, to which we shall return, are readily enough distinguished from the ox tribe and its allies by their solid and more or less branched antlers, usually confined to males, and periodically shed.

We can only say of any one of them that it is an antelope because it is not a sheep, nor a goat, nor an ox.

They prodded him behind like an ox.

Of a truth it almost makes me laugh, To see men leaving the golden grain To gather in piles the pitiful chaff That old Peter Lombard thrashed with his brain, To have it caught up and tossed again On the horns of the Dumb Ox of Cologne!

Your envye will discredite you, my lorde. Gentyllmen, have you not hearde of Aesopps dogge That once lay snarlinge in the oxes maunger? Orl.

13."The genitive case, in my opinion," says Dr. Ash, "might be much more properly formed by adding s, or when the pronunciation requires it, es, without an Apostrophe: as, men, mens; Ox, Oxes; Horse, Horses; Ass, Asses.

"To write Ox's, Ass's, Fox's, and at the same time pronounce it Oxes, Asses, Foxes, is such a departure from the original formation, at least in writing, and such an inconsistent use of the Apostrophe, as cannot be equalled perhaps in any other language."Ib.