Hoofed Pets

These are the beasts of the farm and the road, and the keepers have less to say of them than of any others, having known them all their lives. Every one is a beast of burden. The horse, the donkey and the camel come into the world ready for the saddle, and the cow comes ready for the pail.

The sheep is the surprise of the family. It is frail, and a wolf may do as it likes with one; but there is more magic in a sheep than in a horse, and the shepherds have always known it and said nothing. The bison is kept by those who want something large between themselves and trouble.

Details

• Commonest to rarest, with their young: Horse (colt), Cow (calf), Sheep (lamb), Donkey (donkey colt), Bison (bison calf), Camel (camel calf).
• Their eggs are speckled and red. They are found in treasure, and the rarer ones are seldom seen in the treasure of low levels.
• The horse, the donkey and the camel are born saddled: one can be ridden as soon as it has grown to its rider's size. The cow is born giving milk.
• The cow and the sheep take mostly magical tricks, the others mostly non-magical ones.