A faithful servant and a great assistance ; internal peace. See one very fat, means good times, felicity near at hand. Very lean, means scarcity of grain/famine in the land. Drive one, fatigue and hardship. To see white oxen at pasture, denotes honor, profit, dignity. To see a red one running wild, imminent danger. A black one mad, peril of life. See oxen at labor, inestimable advantages. See them without horns, disarmed enemies. Oxen fighting, commencement of intestine quarrels. See oxen going to water, a very bad omen.