Llow would do with a long tail if he had it--how he would wind it round
each leg in turn, rub up his back hair, and describe figures on the
floor. But no animal so self-conscious as man could bear up long under
the nervous strain of having to think continually of its tail. It would
die young and the race would become extinct. Perhaps it did. A final
word on the conclusion of the whole matter, for these reflections have a
moral. As habit becomes character, so expression hardens into feature.
The tail of a sheep grows downwards, but that of a goat upwards, and
this is the only infallible outward mark of distinction between the two
animals. But it is the permanent record of a long history. The sheep was
never anything but sheepish; the goat and its forefathers were pert as
kids and
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