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Let us begin, inoffensively, with sheep. The sheep is a beast with which / we are all familiar, being much used in religious imagery; the common / stock of painters; a staple article of diet; one of our main sources of / clothing; and an everyday symbol of bashfulness and stupidity.
In some grazing regions the sheep is an object of terror, destroying / grass, bush and forest by omnipresent nibbling; on the great plains, / sheep-keeping frequently results in insanity, owing to the loneliness of / the shepherd, and the monotonous appearance and behavior of the sheep.