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short inti'oductory remarks, the auctioneer called atten- 

 tion to the spirit which Mr. Budding had always shown 

 in getting the best bulls, be the price what it might, 

 and reminded them that when he gave 200 gs. for 

 Childers, GO or 70 gs. for a bull was enough to set a 

 whole neighbourhood in a ferment of pity and specu- 

 lation combined. 



The rumpy twelve-year-old Adora was the first to 

 make her entree, and 20 gs, from the waggon, whose 

 tenants were sadly costive in their bidding throughout, 

 put her up at 20 gs., from which she gradually pro- 

 gressed to 27 gs. Lots 2 and 3 were ill or dead, and 

 it was not until The Belle (dam of Bride Elect) came 

 out that the bidders seemed to answer to the whip at 

 all. Canary, a daughter of Leonidas, and half Booth 

 and Bates, was the first that had much in the way 

 of gay looks to boast of, and reached 61 gs. Pellonia, 

 a daughter of Baron Warlaby, and with a head which 

 at once revealed her descent, all but achieved that 

 price, and Lady Mary Bountiful, for whom Colonel 

 Towneley once offered 150 gs. in vain, became Mr. 

 Torr's, after a sharp struggle, we believe, with Lord 

 Feversham, for 120gs. Fancy 12th, a BaronWarlaby cow 

 of fine substance, went to Mr. Noakes, of Kent, who 

 did great execution during the afternoon. Admiration, 

 with her Rose-of-Athelstane sort of head, sold well ; and 

 seven of the Baron Warlaby cows, nine of them less 

 than five years old, averaged 69 gs. Alice Hawthorne, 

 a daughter of his, had splendid size and substance, but 

 her breeding powers were under suspicion ; and with 

 Lola Montes, who went abroad at Mons. Zoeprittz's 

 uod, the result of the first hour was announced by 

 the amateur Quilter and Balls as nineteen lots for 

 1,024 gs. 



It was rather appalling to find that only seven out 

 of twenty-seven pages of the catalogue had been cleared, 

 but the pace improved as the sale advanced, and 

 twenty-two were sold in the next hour, and twenty-six 

 the one after. Easthorpe Rose (41 gs.) was a good and 

 cheap daughter of Lemnos^ still the sale hung at this 

 point, but revived when Eastthorpe Belle (G6 gs.), the 

 cleverest and thickest of three good daughters of The 

 Squire, came on the scene. Canny Lass (68 gs.), with 

 her nice hair and quality, also bore good testimony to 

 Superior ; and the level-topped China Aster (66 

 gs.), whose sale was enlivened by the exhortation of 

 " Go along, Charley,'" addressed by a Lincolnshire 

 man to his bidding fellow, did no disgrace to General 

 Sale II. Lady Sale (47 gs.), one of his daughters, 

 went to Ireland; and then there was a capital 

 71-guinea rally for Rose of Cambridge, and a still 

 grander one for the rare daughter of Sir Samuel and 

 Lady Mary Bountiful. The crowd seemed to have 

 quite awakened out of its drowsy dream, and all eyes 

 were turned on the " Irish Waggon," when Mr. Torr 

 and Captain Oliver, " him in the white hat,'' rattled 

 their five-guinea bids along. However, the former 

 stayed the longest, and Lady Louisa Bountiful is des- 

 tined to take her place in the Challouer herd. Wood- 

 bine 2nd, a very nice, red, young daughter of Kalafat 

 and a Leonidas cow, and reminding us something in 



her style of Mr. Douglas's Rose of Cashmere, also fell 

 to the lot of Mr. Richardson, another member of the 

 dangerous Irish division; and she and Unity are 

 bound to the same Glenmore pastures in which the 

 celebrated young Soubadar used to roam. Capt. 

 Oliver also fought well for Charity, a well-made fifteen 

 months roan by Sir Samuel, which fetched 95 guineas, 

 or just four guineas more than her red half-sister Sylph. 

 Annie Laurie, by Kalafat, found few to beat her in 

 point of snugness, and we quite expected that the 76- 

 guinea bid would have been the fruitful mother of a 

 hundred more; but it was not so. Vanguard's 

 heifer-getting powers came out gloriously in the good 

 and thick Fancy Lady, and Lord Feversham and Capt. 

 Oliver wore soon in action for her, and were not sepa- 

 rated till victory was declared for his Lordship at 125 

 guineas. Next time, however, Capt. Oliver brooked 

 no opposition for Autumn Rose (71 guineas), a very 

 even short-legged daughter of the same bull, nor for 

 Anne (42 guineas), by Vanguard, dam by Belvedere 

 IVth, a beautiful Duchess 77th roan, who seemed as 

 cheap as Plum Blossom (32 guineas). The Hon. E. 

 Lascelles, who won the calf prize at the recent Ponte- 

 fract Show, contented himself with Pearl (38 guineas); 

 and then the somewhat flat-sided Bride Elect closed 

 the female list. 



After such a plethoric list of female beauties, it was 

 quite I'efreshing to see Lord of the Manor — a son of 

 Lemnos and Lady Mary Bountiful— enter the ring. 

 He is rather deficient on the chine, and about the set- 

 ting on of the tail ; but in other respects he is a very 

 grand animal, on a beautiful leg, and with an unsur- 

 passable twist. He is a nice-tempered bull in private, 

 but this public ordeal did not suit him, and his leader 

 was several times begged by the spectators to get 

 another man to hold the chain while he kept the pole, 

 but, thanks to the admirable patience and tact with 

 which he was managed, the suggestion became un- 

 necessary. He won the head prize at Horncastle a few 

 weeks since, beating Prince Alfred, who is considered 

 to be perhaps the best show bull Mr. Booth has ; and 

 hence he had well earned his right to stay in the county. 

 At first the bidders dwelt dreadfully, but the 40 gs. 

 eventually became 90 gs., and he departed to Mr. 

 Greetham, who will find few handsomer bulls, go 

 where he may. The thick-fleshed Admiral had also 

 many admirers ; but he had less style, and did not make 

 so much by nine guineas. The white Lord Alexis, whom 

 Mr. Dudding purchased for 70 gs. some time since, 

 fell short of that money by 17 gs. ; and the useful 

 Colonel Ceilings (95 gs.) did something towards re- 

 trieving the famed Vanguard as a bull-getter. The 

 sale occupied very nearly five hours, but the people 

 were very constant to the last ; and although one om- 

 nibus man had long before sung out " Bardney Sta- 

 tion", and another had sounded his horn, as a hint 

 that he would like to be moving on, the hint was not 

 generally taken, and nearly all the pencils were busy 

 to the last. There was every inducement to prolong 

 the afternoon, as the tables in the tent were liberally 

 re-spread for tea, " and something more," and ful i 



