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yew tree in front of it — where the game-fowl and the 

 pigeons cluster at nightfall as thick as the sacred apes in 

 the temples of Benares — was nearly as antique. Knight 

 of Warlaby by Windsor, from Blithe by Hopewell, 

 granddam Bliss by Leonard, had gone home after his 

 year's sojourn, leaving five calves ; and some cows in 

 calf by him. The year before, Captain Spencer sent two 

 heifers to Lord of the Valley and bought others in calf to 

 him and Windsor from Mr. Carr ; and, in fact, through- 

 out his herd there is a very strong infusion of the most 

 fashionable Booth blood of the day. The lots include 23 

 cows and heifers, and 10 bulls. Miranda 3rd, the eight- 

 year-old matron of the herd, has distinguished herself as 

 the dam of Young Ben, and several good bulls ; but 

 she has, unfortunately, just lost her only heifer calf, 

 by Knight of Warlaby. 



The bulls have all been sold, with the exception of 

 Young Ben, by Booth's Benedict, who was purchased 

 as a calf from Mr. Dickinson for 30 gs. Besides 

 winning in the county twice, he crossed the Channel to 

 the Dublin spring show tliis year, and beat 10 bulls for 

 the head prize in the aged class. His neck is a little 

 thinner than we like, but his hind-quarters are espe- 

 cially orthodox ; and take him all in all, he is a good 

 class animal. Sunflower, bred by Mr. Grindal, is a 

 strong-backed, roomy, and rather old-fashioned cow. 

 Her daughter Sontag, the last of the get of Daisy Duke, 

 was recently sold as a yearling for 80 gs. to the Duke 

 of Richmond, but the three-year-old Sclavonia by 

 Cherry Duke (12589), and the yearling Lady of the 

 Isles by Young Ben, keep up the line. Sclavonia 

 catches her head from Sunflower, and has very nice 

 fore-quarters, though perhaps she may be a trifle on 

 leg ; and Royal Duke by Young Ben, and Baron Gar- 

 noch, by Knight of Warlaby, are the first of her stock. 

 Beyond perhaps, being a trifle down in her loins, a point 

 which has not prevented her getting several prizes, 

 there is little to urge against Lizzy, whose handling and 

 curved horns, coming so gaily out of her top-knot, 

 would guide us to her at once out of a thousand red 

 and whites. She is only five months over seven years old, 

 and has had five calves. Her yearling Miss Kitty, by 

 Y^oung Ben, has already won a couple of first prizes 

 at Penrith and Ulverstone ; and her Baron Lowther, by 

 Welcome Guest, is not yet three months old. Josephine, 

 by Prince Duke (13507), was calved soon after she 

 arrived; and she in her turn has calved Josephine IL 

 to Knight of Warlaby, so that Lizzy has very quickly 

 founded her tribe. Leila is well worthy in looks of her 

 dam, and in the Brahmin's judgment she is prettier, 

 but so far she has only bred bulls, one of them. Sky- 

 rocket, a nice cropped Marmaduke, with an exceedingly 

 pretty side view, and the other Knight of Allerdale by 

 Welcome Guest. Blink Bonny, a white with roan 

 ears, by Viscount Coke (13957), from an Earl of 

 Warwick (11412) cow, was purchased from Mr. Straf- 



ford, and the result of her visit to Lord of the Valley 

 was the yearling Sultana. Pretty Maid of Sandford is 

 alone in her glory, but Arkleby Lass, the last which 

 Mr. Thornwaite had of the old Christian-Curwen sort, 

 has a white Knight of Warlaby calf, Derwent Lass, at 

 her side. Her horn is a little against her, but she 

 looks a heifer of capital constitution. 



One of the greatest losses has fallen on the herd in 

 the death of La Vallicre's heifer calf, but she is believed 

 to be in calf again to Knight of Warlaby. Before 

 Mr. Carr sold her for 150 gs. to her present owner, she 

 had produced a redoubtable son and heir in Mr. 

 Ambler's celebrated prize winner Prince Talleyrand ; 

 and she was then in-calf to Lord of the Valley with 

 Seignor, a very useful-looking country bull. La Valliere 

 herself is by Gainford 5th (12918), and has several of 

 Booth's best bulls in her dam's escutcheon. Her quality 

 is perhaps not very remarkable, but she is a nice- 

 shouldered, useful, and compact cow. Castanet by 

 Booth's Prince Arthur came from Mr. Wood's, of 

 Ireland, as a yearling in calf to Lord of the Valley. 

 She has always been a great favourite of ours, and has 

 made wonderfully good use of her time by calving Maid 

 of Orleans — a heifer with a nice head and hair and 

 quality — to Lord of the Valley, when she was scarcely 

 28 months old. She followed this up with twin bulls, 

 to wit, Knight of Distington and Knight of Moresby, 

 which have adopted the fashionable Gunter precedent of 

 coming roan and white. Crown Princess, a fine 

 squarey cow with a well-sprung rib and low. twist, 

 is a union of the Crown Prince and Troutbeck Straw- 

 berry sort; and the neat Harmony by Harbinger, 

 from a cow with three crosses of Booth, has added 

 a fourth, by the aid of Windsor, to her roan Prince 

 of Orange. Lady Eagle by War Eagle, a true-made 

 cow with a nice head, has six crosses of Booth, in- 

 cluding the very pick of the Warlaby bulls, Leonard, 

 Buckingham, and Raspberry. Queen of Oude, from 

 a Norfolk cow, and so back to Pilot and Agamemnon, 

 was purchased at Mr. Cator's sale ; and Wild Eyes 

 28th is a cross between Lord of the Valley, and that 

 well-known Kirklevington tribe. Lastly, the " Nestor 

 of the Shorthorns " is represented in Bloom, a 110- 

 guinea purchase at his Aldborough sale ; she was first 

 at Ulverstone as a calf, and the best proof of her merit 

 is that above a hundred was refused for her at Dublin 

 this year. Considering that Captain Spencer has only 

 devoted himself for four years to the task, it is wonderful 

 that so promising a herd should have been got together; 

 and we need only add that with the exception of 

 Josephine 2nd, who will be kept as a relic of the Lizzy 

 line, the whole of the lots will be sold " without 

 reserve," in the bond fide meaning of the words. 



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