4. Sheep and Goats—Characteristics and varieties. Raising sheep or goats as a business: the best regions, and the best breeds of animals for commercial purposes. Conditions of success.
5. Dogs and Cats—Antiquity of their domestication. Varieties and their qualities. Dogs as pack-animals, as hunters, in police work, as pets. Readings from Agnes Repplier, The Household Sphinx, and Maeterlinck on the Dog.
Books to Consult—Olive Thorne Miller: Our Home Pets. N. S. Shaler: Domesticated Animals. C. A. Shamel: Profitable Stock Raising. Théophile Gauthier: My Household of Pets.
One paper might be written on the horse in mythology and literature (Pegasus, Bucephalus, etc.); another on famous race-courses and racers. In farming communities take up the subject of horse-raising, sanitary barns, etc. A third paper may be on American packing-houses; a fourth on shepherds, ancient and modern, and stories of shepherd-dogs; a fifth on famous dogs. Illustrate the last with a reading from Rab and His Friends.
VIII—BIRDS
1. Birds of the Water and the Shore—The sea-gull, loon, wild geese and ducks. Herons, pelicans, curlew.
2. Birds of Prey—Eagles, vultures, hawks.
3. Birds as Game—Pheasants, pigeons, quail, grouse, wild turkeys.
4. Birds of the Night—Owls, night-hawks.
5. Birds and Insects—Woodpeckers, bee-eaters, swifts.