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...choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger in the oil and made the sign of the cross on both the Queen's hands, on her breast and on the crown of her head. He spoke the ancient words: "As kings, priests...
...statement that the musk ox "yields meat (though only if killed)" puzzles me. Do you HAVE to kill one before eating...
...Musk Ox Forever
...even when (and if) the eight musk oxen grow to maturity in Vermont, a few problems will remain to be settled. Nobody milks musk oxen, since the beast regards any man, with or without a bucket in his hand, as a mortal enemy. So far, milk has been obtained from them by the simple process of shooting the cow before milking -a practice probably too expensive in the long run for thrifty New England. Nobody clips them, either, but fortunately the animal sheds some of his hair in the spring, and anyone patient enough to follow him around and pick...
...this, the ox only produces one calf a year and seldom more than three in a lifetime, and will not be a common sight in Vermont for some time. This is probably just as well. The musk ox, which likes to lick lichen from snow-covered rocks, should react well to New England grazing. But it is a little harder to tell just how New England will react to the musk...