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threat p;rand dam of Grand Duke ; another, Blanche by 

 Belvedere, from whom Roaa Duchess 2nd is in direct 

 descent ; and a third founded the Waterloo's of Aylesby 

 and Springfield fame. Norfolk himself was from Non- 

 pareil by Magnet, rather a gaudy cow, from Mr. Barker, 

 of East Layton's sale, where Sir Charles Knightley pur- 

 chased the Rose and Primrose, which, along with Rufus 

 and Little John of Mr. Arbuthnot's breeding, virtually 

 founded the Fawsley herd. In 1834, Mr. Fawkes 

 bought Verbena and the magnificent Medora, for 

 39 gs. and 35 gs., at Mr. Richard Booth's Studley sale, 

 and bred nine calves from the latter. The year previous 

 Mr. Whitaker sold off his herd, and again bought about 

 three dozen well-bred cows, for the use of his work- 

 people, at the Burley mills. Mr. Fawkes was so much 

 struck with the looks of some of them, that he arranged 

 with his neighbour to allow him to select twenty for 

 service principally by Norfolk. The compact was to be 

 in force for three years, and ten guineas was to be paid for 

 each of them, doublets or not, at the expiration of a 

 week, provided it was not a blacknose, and had no 

 symptoms of unsoundness. Hence sixty were transferred 

 during that period from Greenholme to Farnley, and the 

 first ten bull calves by Norfolk averaged 100 gs. each. 

 The very first bull-calf that was dropped, received 

 the title of Sir Thomas Fairfax (who won at the Bristol 

 Royal, and twice at the Yorkshire Society) ; and the 

 Ohio Company offered 400 gs. for Norfolk in vain on 

 that trip, when, but for Mr. Whitaker's faint praise, 

 they would have carried off Duchess 34th in calf with 

 the Duke of Northumberland. However, they took 

 away the Duke of York (1941) for 150 gs., who had 

 been sold as a calf for fourteen guineas, at Mr. 

 Whitaker's sale the year before, and bought some 

 lots at the Studley sale as well. When he was rising 

 four, 250 gs. was accepted for Sir Thomas Fairfax, 

 and he departed to Brawith, leaving eight and-twenty 

 Fair-named calves behind. Only old Fairy Tale re- 

 mains to testify to this beautiful favourite, but she has 

 bravely supported his line with fourteen calves since 

 1842. Medora had been helping meanwhile to carry on 

 the Norfolks, thrice from the old bull direct, and thrice 

 from Sir Thomas Fairfax, and when the three years' 

 lease of Mr. Whitaker's cows had expired, the Farnley 

 herd mainly consisted of some thirty two-year-old 

 heifers. 



Laudable (9282) by Liverpool (4235) was pur- 

 chased for 200 gs. at the Newcastle Royal in 1846; 

 but he broke his stifle after a few years' service, and 

 then came Bridegroom (11203) from Mr. Lawson's of 

 Stapleton Grange, Darlington. From this bull, who 

 was by Lord Ducie's Lansdowne, a son of Cramer (the 

 Royal Shrewsbury prize bull), Mr. Fawkes laid the 

 foundation of a regular succession of Royal winners. 

 Lydia Languish was by Lord Marquis, from a heifer 

 bred by the Duke of Buccleuch at Boughton, and Sir 

 Edmund Lyons (15284), who won the head yearling 

 bull prize at the Salisbury Royal, the Yorkshire, and 

 Stockton shows, was the result of her cross with Bride- 

 groom. Sir Edmund Lyons's career was very short, as 

 he had to be slaughtered, in consequence of a rupture. 

 Bridegroom's Royal glories did not, hov^ever, rest here, 

 as John O'Groat was by him, from Julietta, bought at 

 Mr. Ambler's sale in 1852; and so was General Bos- 

 quet (14,591),-a winner at Chelmsford Royal, the York - 

 shii'e, and the Northumberland shows, from Betty Foy, 

 a great grand- daughter of Fairy Tale. Sir Edmund 

 Lyons was generally considered by breeders to be a 

 neater bull than the massive and mossy-haired General 

 Bosquet ; but still John O'Groat was perhaps the 

 finest and most stylish bull that Mr. Fawkes has yet 

 bred. Reducing General Bosquet, when the show sea- 

 son was over, proved fatal to him, and his son Bon Gar. 



(^on (15G69) (from Lady Griselda by Laudable), the 

 winner in the bull-calf class at Chester Royal, died 

 at fifteen months, from the quarter-evil, after four 

 and a-half hours' illness, and only left two calves. 

 He would have met Royal Butterfly at Northallerton, 

 but he was just too old to go into the class. Lord 

 Marquis (10459) by Laudable proved a very profit- 

 able sire. After being placed second to Mr. 

 Chrisp's Phoenix at Lewes, he won the prize at the York- 

 shire show, and his son Robinson Crusoe from Lovely 

 is at present the senior bull of the herd. Still amid the 

 old heroes of Farnley and Greenholme, we must not for- 

 get the ncJit and good Millon (7238), nor his sire Rock- 

 ingham (2550), who owned no master but a certain dog, 

 after his ring had been torn out of his nose. 



It has been Mr. Fawkes's habit to have periodical 

 bull sales, which have at times reached an ,:4''80 average. 

 Roans have been his favourite colour ; and it is the result 

 of his experience, that a white bull upon a red cow is 

 much more certain to produce them, than a red upon 

 a white. As a general thing, he does not sell his 

 females, and this year he has bred about twenty-six 

 calves from twenty-five cows. The Emperor of the 

 French's agent transplanted three roan heifer- calves 

 by Bridegroom, along with Maid of Lorn, from this herd 

 to the Imperial stalls ; and Kentucky and Ohio have 

 not left it unransacked in their searches after blood • 



The house itself, which was originally built in the 

 time of Elizabeth, was added on to, about a hundred 

 years ago, and stands on a rising ground, a mile and 

 a-half to the north-east of Otley. The road winds up 

 through the well-wooded park, of a hundred and forty 

 acres, and so along an avenue thickly lined v.ith laurels, 

 among which " the merry brown hares come leaping," 

 and the pheasants feed in troops, as if the crack of 

 a Manton was a sound unknown in Wharfdale. A 

 road to the right, just before we reach the quaint old 

 iron gates, leads across a bridge, and past the aviary to 

 the farm-yard buildings, part of which once composed 

 the ancient kennels, from which Mr. Fawkes in his 

 younger days was wont to ride forth at the head 

 of his harriers. All the cattle stand on wood spars in 

 old-fashioned comfortable boxes ; and a neat red heifer 

 calf, Villa Franca, by Sultan (17053), from Fatima, 

 and the infant of the herd, was our first introduction. 

 Then came Lady Lyons by Sir Edmund Lyons, from 

 a Laudable cow, a lighter roan than her sire, with a 

 nice coat, and plenty of length, but perhaps a trifle 

 flatfish. Amphitrite, another of Sir Edmund's get, 

 from Ada, stood near her, with a remarkably neat head 

 and forequarter, but the bull was still more favourably 

 transmitted to her posterity by Solferino from Clair- 

 voyant, a very fine calf indeed, with great thickness, and 

 fine handling. Magenta, by Don Giovanni (a son of 

 Robinson Crusoe, who was first as a yearling at Dur- 

 ham, and was sold to Mr. Bostock for Australia), came 

 next, in the shape of a very level rich- coated calf, with 

 that fore-quarter on which Mr. Fawkes has always laid 

 so much stress, and gives us good reason to regret that 

 there are only two calves by this bull in the herd. The 

 dark-red Canuonball was another of the Robinson 

 Crusoes from Cannonade, a Bridegroom cow, with a 

 great deal of character, and delightfully neat in the offal. 



Montebello by Bon Gar<;on, from Juliana, w^is the 

 occupant of the first of ihe long platoon of bull boxes, 

 in the same yard, and came out in the shape of a very 

 thick roan, with capital hair, and good back and loin. 

 The white Gardoni, a brother to Don Giovanni, and son 

 of Grisi, one of the best breeders in the herd, had also a 

 wonderful back and loins, and looks quite a prize bull ; 

 though, perhaps, we were more struck with Election 

 from Lady Fanchette, and Reformer, the fourteenth in 

 the Fairy Tale calendar ; both of them by Sir Edmund 



