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Show Goat Ranked Above Cow in Mountainous Lands Although they keep themselves distinct dis-tinct and appear to affect disdain one for the other, sheep and goats are, and apparently always have been pastured together, the goats eating the brush RDd roughage which the more tender-mouthed tender-mouthed sheep will not touch. In rough, rocky mountainous districts dis-tricts as is a great part of the land of Canaan, the goat is a more serviceable animal than the cow, more agile and wonderfully sure footed, content to wander about and pick a mouthful here and there, able to live without much more moisture than the heavy dews supply, long-lived, and generally free from sickness, especially from contagious diseases. They thrive best in the higher altitudes, and the wild varieties which existed until comparatively compara-tively recent days in Syria and about the Palestinian Lebanon, are always sought on mountain tops. As the Psalmist Psalm-ist says: "The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats." It is worth noticing no-ticing that among all his riches of flocks and herds. Job counted no goats, as was to be expected, since he lived on an Arabian plain where was abundant abun-dant pasturage for his "fourteen thousand thou-sand sheep and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses." (Job 20 :12) as well doubtless as immense numbers of cows. |