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only two yenta and three months old, and had calved but 

 two months before. Mr. Douglas's Rose of Summer was 

 her principal opponent, and in the same year she was 

 second to Victoria at Salisbury, with Moss Rose and 

 Nectarine Blossom in her wake. She has had three 

 living calves, and was just within twelve days of calving 

 to Baron Hopewell. There is very rich quality of flesh 

 and hair in her, and she has plenty of bosom and sub- 

 stance to fill the eye, but perhaps her hips arc a little 

 too prominent, and she might have been longer in the 

 quarters. Pride, who stood near her, was very close on 

 calving to Frederick. She was purchased at the sale of 

 Mr. Grenfell's herd, and came there from her breeder 

 Lord Ducie. These two stood at the lodge, and a drive of 

 about half mile up the avenue brought us to some farm 

 buildings on the left, which are termed Jacob's Barn, 

 not from any Scriptural connection, but from a farmer 

 of that name who rented it. Foremost among the ten 

 who were housed there was the patriarchess of the herd. 

 Butterfly, by Booth's Jeweller out of Buttercup. She 

 was the first to show, and, with the exception of a free 

 martin, she was the first female Col. Towneley ever bred. 

 She still retains her fine gay appearance, but the calf- 

 bed has protruded so much, that she has been obliged 

 to lie low, with her head on a boarded frame, in order to 

 keep it in its place. Her fore-quarters are beautiful, 

 and the rump, which has got somewhat swelled and dis- 

 figured by perpetually rubbing against the wall in her 

 new position, serves as a foil for them. The renowned 

 Master Butterfly is the second of her five calves, and 

 Royal Butterfly the last ; and at present she is in calf to 

 Butterfly's Nephew. Her public career has been, as the 

 theatres have it, one blaze of triumph. Among her 

 thirty prizes, she won all the female ones at the Royal 

 Society, and confirmed the yearling heifer one at Thirsk ; 

 and she had the honour of beating Booth's Windsor and 

 Bridesmaid for the Irish Agricultural Challenge Cup the 

 time she finally won it at Armagh. It must be, howeveri 

 stated, in justice to this pair, that when they went to 

 Blackburne, and won the Towneley Challenge Cups, they 

 had beaten the Colonel's herd (which were not in the Cup 

 competition) for the Society's medals. She was also among 

 the four at Sheffield, which won Mr. Bright's the silver- 

 smiths' prize for the best lot at the Yorkshire Society, 

 and the time-piece in the dining-room at the hall is the 

 record of that triumph. Two of her Irish cups form an 

 important feature in the Towneley plate chest, to which, 

 among others, Roan Duchess 2nd has contributed a 

 Dublin Challenge Cup of £120 value, and Beauty's 

 Butterfly that Durham Cup, which was given by Lord 

 Adolphus Vane last autumn. 



Three heifer calves, to wit, Vestris 5th, the white 

 Precious Stone, and Butterfly's Decorum, all by Master 

 Butterfly 4th, who was sold about a year since to the 

 Emperor of the French, were turned out next, and a 

 very nice trio they made. Precious Stone had a beauti- 

 ful long top, and is as level as a die along it ; Vestris 

 5th was very neat and good ; and Butterfly's Decorum 

 is the thickest of the lot, with a wonderful chest, great 

 in the fore flank and remarkably smart in the head. A 

 red bull-calf, Precursor, by the same bull out ^of one of 



Lord Ducie's Duke of Glo'ster cows, shows well for the 

 cross, but still wc should have liked a little more length 

 in the quarters. The buU-boxes then discharged their 

 tenants in succession, to wit, the gay Master Proud- 

 fellow, Butterfly's Nephew, a young bull with wonder- 

 ful width of breast and back, and Master Butterfly 5th, 

 the youngest bull-calf Master Butterfly has left in 

 England. The latter is a very stylish red, with a rare 

 forehand, and well represents his sire. He is out of 

 Cameo, a half-sister to Butterfly, and 400 gs. was 

 refused for him when a yearling. He took the first 

 prize at the Wharfdale Agricultural Society ; but as he 

 lost eleven months in age, he has not been shown as a 

 yearling. Royal Butterfly, own brother to Master 

 Butterfly, holds his court in the central barn, from which 

 he marched out, every inch a king. He is very like 

 his renowned brother, but rather thicker in flesh and 

 richer in his roan. We have seldom seen the favourite 

 cylinder simile so completely typified, and a plumb line 

 rests level on every part of him. He comes to Cul- 

 shaw's call like a lamb, and his head is seen in perfec- 

 tion as he lifts it, and bestows upon him the most affec- 

 tionate of salutes. His dam had held this barn as the 

 post of honour till about a month before, when the frame 

 became absolutely necessary. Royal Butterfly was shown 

 at Chester, but was so unwell with purging as to be 

 obliged to leave the yard. Another fortnight, however, 

 saw him take the head prize at Northallerton, and he is 

 now in rude health, and ready to meet all comers at 

 Warwick . 



We should like to have brought back Master Butterfly 

 to the barn from which he marched forth in successive 

 years to Lincoln, Carlisle, and Chelmsford, to vanquish 

 John O'Groat, Grand Turk, and Fifth Duke of Oxford ; 

 but the wish was vain, and we could only dwell in me- 

 mory on that symmetrical form, which knew little or no 

 change, when it was shipped at the East India Docks, 

 from what it was, when he was seen taking his breakfast 

 of rich new milk as a winning calf at Lincoln. 



He knew no check to his victories either in England, 

 Ireland, or Paris ; and such was his luck, that when 

 disease came among the cattle in the French show-yard, 

 he missed it entirely. Mr. Strafford negotiated his 

 purchase for Mr. Bostock in the Chelmsford Show Yard, 

 and he was taken off' to the shippers at once. He went to 

 Mr. Ware, of Geelong, in Australia, and was exhibited 

 soon after his arrival at half-a-crown *a-head for the 

 benefit of its Agricultural Society. Nothing could be 

 more docile during his long voyage out, and while the 

 passengers fed him with biscuits, it was quite a diversion 

 among the sailors to see him answer to his name like 

 a dog, and take so very kindly to chewing tobacco. 

 Unhappily, the man who went out in charge of him died, 

 and he has shown some little temper since. The papers 

 very early made him play in the farce of " Twice 

 Killed," and when he rancorously persisted in living, 

 they plunged him into " a very delicate stace of 

 health." His former guardian was hard of belief, 

 but really as report followed report, he might 

 have almost been tempted to exclaim to him in an 

 agony across the Pacific, " Och hone! ivhy did you 



