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inflicted his pity on Mr. Harvey Combe, when Fanatic 

 and his friends arrived, in the shape of a prophecy, that 

 he " would find them sweat awmj like a candle" 

 — to come forward and recant. 



And so he passed on to the first lot — Fairy — and the 

 sale opened with a 20-guinea bid. She fell, for 27 gs., 

 to a gentleman with the ominous name of " Butcher ;" 

 but all forebodings after so bad a beginning were dis- 

 pelled the moment the ten-year-old Cambridge Rose 

 6th — that rich relic of Kirklevington — stepped airily 

 into the ring. Her forehand is very gay and beautiful, 

 but rather too light, and her shoulders are a little up- 

 right ; but still she is a very beautiful type of her race. 

 Six of her produce were in the sale that day, and of 

 these The Belle, The Beauty, and Moss Rose made 

 530 gs. Fifty was the first bid, and then Mr. Bolden 

 came boldly out with " a hundred " from the back of the 

 waggon. Twenty was the next bid, and they went on 

 sharply till IGO, when the competition was left to Mr. 

 Downes, who bid for Mr. Hales, a gentleman from 

 North Frith, near Tonbridge, and Mr. Fisher, of Aus- 

 tralian celebrity ; but when the glass ran out at 200 <js., 

 it was announced that she was destined to leave the Old 

 World for the New. Delight — a barren cow, and 

 bought at Lord Ducie's sale — did not excite much at- 

 tention. Lord Zetland has one or two good things out 

 of her, but the luck of Mr. Manning, who founded a 

 herd from his Magnum Bonum cow, which was thought 

 hopeless, was cited in vain ; and as the bidder of 34 gs. 

 wouldn't declare himself, she was left to Mr. Leeney for 

 33 gs. Fairlight went cheap, as we thought, at 52 gs. ; 

 and Rival (a daughter of Mr. Torr's old Rennet, of 

 Booth's Anna tribe), who was the 150 guinea plum at Mr. 

 Marjoribanks's second sale, but now rather a speculative 

 lot, fell to Mr. Sanduy for 30 gs.; while Graceful (a 

 daughter of Gazelle), who was bought for 100 gs., and 

 won in Yorkshire, followed at 90 gs. The fact of her 

 never having had a calf, although she is now nearly seven 

 years old, brought The Belle nearly down to butcher's 

 price; and even her splendid calf. Samphire, could not 

 force Seaweed beyond 50 gs. 



Darlington 5th, a grand-daughter of Grand Duke, of 

 one-thousand-g'uinea fame, and own sister to a heifer 

 who was sold for 300 gs. to Mr. Thome, of America, 

 followed at 71 gs., and then came one of the most in- 

 teresting contests of the day. It was, indeed, the very 

 leauty of bidding to see Mr. Downes and Mr. Jonas 

 Webb oppose each other for this heifer. There was a 

 sort of calm " do or die " about the great Southdown 

 king as he rose in his waggon, catalogue in hand, 

 directly facing Mr. Strafford, and fired oft' his biddings 

 as regularly as a minute gun. The speculators quite 

 caught the enthusiasm, though they felt assured that the 

 day was Babraham's from the first. Mr. Doig did not 

 let Darlington 8th pass him, and 90 came in three 

 places ; but there was but a trifling competition for the 

 deceptive Lady Bates, and Jlr. Strafford in vain re- 

 minded his audience that her sire, Duke of Glo'ster, 

 was bought by the Americans, at Tortworth, for 650 gs. 

 A fifty bid from Lord Feversham sent Saucebox to Dun- 

 combe Park, and Mr. Lseney gave up his forty-one- 

 guinea bid for l?lossom to Mr. Kimber. 



It now became the turn of Captain Spencer, who was 

 seated on the edge of the waggon close at Mr. Strafibrd's 

 right, to open his fire for the splendid Leila, who next 

 showed in the ring. He carried off both her dam Lizzy 

 and her calf at Mr. Gren fell's sale (the latter, only 23 

 hours old, for 60 gs.), and hence it was not expected 

 th.tt, after such a mark of preference, he would leave 

 Laila under her old 200 -guinea price. We never saw 

 him bid, but it seems that he and Mr. Strafford had some 

 secret telegraph, and when the last sand ran for 170 ga., 

 he was declared the purchaser. Dustie, a stylish gay white 



heifer, by The Buck, who was bought by Mr. Bostock 

 for nearly 185 gs,, to accompany Master Butterfly to 

 the antipodes, became the Duke of Devonshire's for 

 200 gs., and we believe that his Grace has some more 

 of the Gwynne tribe in his herd at Holker Hall. Sea 

 Nymph 2nd's bad colour was against her, although it 

 was pretty certain that Marmaduke would change it in 

 the calf, and Gaiety, a nice compact little cow, went to 

 Ireland at 150 gs. The Hon. Mr. Duncombe gave 

 53 gs. for Dirce, a very nice cow of a bad colour ; and 

 then Mr. Bowly, the author of the Royal Sociity's 

 Prize Essay on the Management of Cattle, got Flora, 

 after some very steady bidding, for a hundred. Alma, a 

 heifer with a nice head and good hair, but also of a bad 

 colour, fetched eighty. Her dam Annie bred Argus, who 

 went to America for 150 gs.; andthatkeen judge of Short- 

 horns, Mr. Douglas, two years since tried to buy her in 

 vain. Samphire made a good beginning for the Marma- 

 duke calves, and when a Holderness man saw her, he 

 might well say that " our part of the country doesn't 

 cut a very bad figure to-day." Mr.Wetherellhad a general 

 commission from Sir Anthony de Rothschild to select 

 him something good, and as his choice fell here, his 

 120-guinea nod was the last. Leila's calf Looey 

 rather disappointed our expectations ; and she looked as 

 if the others had rather been master of her of late. From 

 the hips she is not very massive, but her middle and head 

 were remarkably nice. Mr. Tallant and Mr. Downes 

 had a slight contest for her, but 105 gs. took her to 

 Bushey. Foiled in this, Mr. Downes gave 110 gs. for 

 the next lot. Blush, out of Beauty, and a beautiful spe- 

 cimen of the science of putting a bull of the Duchess and 

 Princess tribe on Bates. There is no truth in form if 

 she does not breed a rare bull for him some day. The 

 racing owner of Polestar then carried off Filbert for 

 48 gs., and when the neat Ayah had gone for the same 

 as Blush, Moss Rose came out and made the scene of the 

 day. She is the youngest daughter of Cambridge Rose, 

 and as she was calved July 2nd, she is just eligible in the 

 heifer-calf class at Warwick. A hundred was the first bid, 

 and Mr. Bolden said 120, but that was now capped with 

 150, and 200 in three places. Then came 210 in two, 

 and when the glass stood at 250, Mr. Tallant was the 

 master of the situation. There, however, his commission 

 was exhausted, and Mr. Downes's 260 gs. carried the 

 day, and proved that Kent was in earnest, in spite of the 

 candle prophet. Still Bushey did not go away single- 

 handed, as Diadem, a month-old calf, gave them another 

 dip into their ancient Marmaduke for 40 gs. 



By request, this celebrated bull was shifted from his 

 place in the catalogue, and brought out first ; but strange 

 to say, the bidding for him was not very dashing. He is 

 barely three weeks beyond four years old, and looked live! j 

 enough, as he chafed at his pole : but still no one seemed 

 to care very greatly for Iiaving him ; and the biddings, 

 which began at a hundred, were carried on quietly 

 between Mr. Fisher and Mr. Doig up to 350 gs., where 

 Australia declined to go on. Mr. Strafford might well 

 say that Wales "had not bought, but begged him." 

 The Briar, a very smart-headed bull, went at 100 gs. to 

 Burleigh, and we conclude it would only be out of 

 courtesy that the lord of the manor did not smear the 

 shoulder of Marmaduke with his paint brush, and exact 

 a still heavier compromise for his heriot claim. Nothing 

 among the bulls had the grand forehand of The Beau, 

 but he was coarse in many other of his points. Mainstay, 

 who was lame in one knee, was quite the best of the 

 Marmaduke bull-calves, which descended to Splendid, 

 six days old ; but he has not shone as yet in bull-getting, 

 either as regards quality or quantity, and £30 9s. was 

 their average ; whereas the seventeen heifer-calves made 

 £11 83. The latter were also under disadvantages, as 

 they had lost their coats even faster than the season of 



