Ox : Oxen
Oxen (Bos taurus) (plural of ox) are cattle trained as draft animals. Most often they are adult, castrated males. Usually an ox is over four years old due to the need for training and for time to grow to full size. The term steer is used to describe animals of the same species and gender when raised solely for meat. Oxen are used for plowing, transport, hauling, grain-grinding, and wagon drawing. Oxen are sometimes used to skid logs in low-impact select cut logging.Oxen are most often used in teams of two. A wooden yoke is fastened about their necks so that the force of draft is distributed across their shoulders. Oxen are chosen from calves with horns, since the horns hold the yoke in place when the oxen back up or slow down a wheeled load going down hills.
Oxen must be painstakingly trained from a young age. Their teamster must fashion or purchase as many as a dozen yokes of different sizes as the animals grow.
Oxen can pull harder than horses but are not as fast. There are still a substantial number of them in use worldwide.
The ox is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar, in which each animal is associated with certain personality traits.
Lote'll be in 'most any minute."
When Captain Zelotes did return to the office, Issachar was
and Laban was still rubbing his chin and smiling at nothing in
made me mad. I have a--rather mean temper, I'm afraid. Forgive
took it.
"I forgive you this time, Al," he said solemnly, "but don't never
yesterday noon I give you my word my clothes was kind of dampish
doors and dried off considerable I'd a had to change everything,
satisfaction--he was never quite as flippantly personal in his
latter, if not with respect, at least with something distantly akin
Albert wrote long, long letters and received replies which varied
cautious in her correspondence with her lover. "You will forgive
wrote. "Mother seems to be very curious of late about my letters
morning." An older and more apprehensive person might have found
suspicious and a trifle alarming, but Albert never dreamed of being
some of them. He wrote no more letters to Helen. She, too, had
last two or three letters. His conscience still troubled him about
been exactly honorable. Yet what else under the circumstances
to spend Thanksgiving. He would see her then. She would ask him
anticipation many, many times, usually after he had gone to bed at
their meeting was not at all the dreadful ordeal he had feared. Her
was no reproach in her tone or manner. She did not even ask him why
subject, and he did so as they walked together down the main road.
aware only that he felt mean and contemptible and that he must offer
difficult.
But she saved him the trouble. She interrupted one of his
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