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Show Why fhaap Ara Woolly. If you waut to ask a sheep where ho got bis wool and why, take a dog Into a mountain pasture band, and If the sheep are afraid of tho dog they will Invariably run uphill rather than down. You have your answer. Tho ancestors of the domestic sheep, like wild sheep or the present day, lived among high mountains and needed their woolly covering to protect them against the constant cold of high atmospheres. at-mospheres. They chose the high and Inhotpltable region to live In becauso they found the fierce flesh-eating animals ani-mals ot the plains too strong for them. A proof of these facts Is that the wool grows on a aheep tho year round. |