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Oils of many kinds play a very important role in the life of each of us. If your skin is

sunburnt, rub some oil on it. If your hair are too dry put oil on it. Oil your bicycle to make it
go well. Keep a sufficient quantity of oil in your motor-car engine or you will damage it. Yes,
oil is important in many ways, but the kinds of oil that we use for different things may have
different origins. No one would like a dinner cooked in engine oil and no one should put

vegetable oil into a motor car.

There are three main groups of oils – animal, vegetable and mineral. A great quantity of
animal oil comes from whales, those enormous creatures of the sea that are the largest
remaining animals in the world. To protect the whale from the cold of the Arctic seas, nature
has provided it with a thick covering of fat called blubber . When the whale is killed, the
blubber is stripped off and boiled down, either on board ship or on shore. It produces a

great quantity of oil which can be made into food for human consumption. A few other
creatures yield oil, but none so much as the whale. The livers of the cod and halibut, two
kinds of fish, yield nourishing oil. Both cod liver oil and halibut oil are given to sick children

and other invalids who need certain vitamins.
Vegetable oil has been known from very old sunburnt : having burns from heat of sun

times. No household can get without it, for it is used blubber : a thick layer of fat
in cooking. Perfumes may be made from the oils of stripped off : taken off
certain flowers. Soaps are made from vegetable and
animal oils.

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