Vulgar words in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. (Page 1)

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The stripes are believed to occur most frequently and to be plainest on the legs of the domestic ass during early youth, [141] as is apparently likewise the case with the horse.

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In one light-grey ass the shoulder-stripe was only six inches in length, and as thin as a piece of string; and in another animal of the same colour there was only a dusky shade representing a stripe.

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Finally we see that the presence of shoulder, leg, and spinal stripes in the horse,-their occasional absence in the ass,-the occurrence of double and triple shoulder-stripes in both animals, and the similar manner in which these stripes terminate at their lower extremities,-are all cases of analogous variation in the horse and ass.

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Thus with the common ass we see signs of its original desert life in its strong dislike to cross the smallest stream of water, and in its pleasure in rolling in the dust.

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