Word: oxen
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...northeastern outskirts of Paris, reeked as usual with the gore of freshly slaughtered livestock. Nearly a thousand butchers, ruddy-faced and cheerful, lounged about waiting for the clang of the heavy iron bell to call them into the slaughterhouses, to bid for the fresh carcasses of 800 oxen and cows, 1,000 calves, and 1,500 sheep...
...campesino's opposition has only grown stouter. He wants oxen for plowing and cows for milk-not pesos, which he is afraid either to put in a bank or keep at home. The fact that his neighbor's cattle are infected with foot-&-mouth disease seems to him a poor reason for shooting his own herd...
...Snakes or Americans. The Magdalens are still unknown to most Canadians. As a native puts it, they "don't have no oxen, frogs, toads, snakes or Americans." Lately, life has brightened for the Madelinots. They have four quick-freezing plants, so their fish brings a higher price. On the islands there are eight producers' cooperatives and seven consumers', 50 schools, with eleven new schools under construction. There is no divorce, virtually no crime...
...celebrated Missouri mule, isolationist by temperament, has been having some rude shocks, is due for more. Mules sent to Mexico as replacements for oxen killed in the campaign against aftosa (foot-&-mouth disease) have been causing trouble because they were too pampered...
Down through the years, they have kept the traditions of their ancestors. They still use oxen to work their farms. Nearly half of them still speak Gaelic. A sign proclaiming "Cead Mile Failte" (a hundred thousand welcomes) greets visitors at Keltic Lodge, famed tourist spot near the entrance to Cape Breton's Highlands National Park...