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Title: Country life reader
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Stevenson, Orlando John, 1869- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Country life. (from old catalog) Readers
Publisher: New York, Chicago (etc.) C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d of wild horses there appeared a splendid group ofmodern breeds, fine Belgian draught-horses, fiery Percheronsfrom France, Clydesdales from Scotland and Shires fromEngland, American trotters and EngUsh thoroughbreds,and fine carriage-horses of every possible kind. When Chris looked to see what had become of the packof wolves, he could scarcely believe his eyes. Such anassortment of dogs he had never seen before! It seemedto him that every imaginable size and breed of dog mustbe there, for he could not even begin to distinguish all thevarieties, much less to name them. The buffalo, too, had gone, and all the other queer-looking cattle with them, and their place was takennow by Holsteins, Ayrshires, and Jerseys and Guernseys,and beef breeds such as Shorthorns, Herefords, and Gallo-ways, which Chris had seen with his father at the fallfair. And beyond them, where the camels and llamas andmountain-sheep had appeared only a moment before,there were gathered now a flock of sheep and lambs.
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18 COUNTRY LIFE READER Southdowns, Shropshires, and Cheviots; long-woolledLeicesters and Cotswolds, and wrinkled Merinos, and halfa dozen other kinds which Chris had never seen before.The tent seemed less crowded now, too, for the elephantand rhinoceros and all the other big animals had gone andin place of them there appeared a drove of grunting swine—black Berkshires and Poland-Chinas, red-haired Duroc-Jerseys, and large-boned Chester-Whites, and other well-known breeds. During all this time Chris had been so interested inwhat was going on in the pit that he had forgotten allabout the other people who were looking on. And nowwhen he looked around, you may imagine his surprise tofind that the crowd were all gone, and that his fatherand he were left alone; and, stranger still, when Chrislooked back to the pit it was quite empty. The splendidhorses and cattle and dogs and sheep and swine had alldisappeared as quickly and mysteriously as they had come.And now Chris was quite ready to g

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