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far back, or springing so gracefully from the coronet. 

 The other has not had such advantages of keep, but is 

 hardy-looking, and with a neat fore-quarter. Prince 

 Alfied's head, as curly as old Barley Sugar's, was next 

 seen, slowly advancing out of his house ; and then came 

 " the great Albion rib" and the rare leg of beef, to com- 

 plete the whole. The latter is an especial point with him, 

 and it well earned him his right to have the royal patent 

 so long. 



A narrow path past the calf-houses and the end of 

 the barn where " the prize-fighters" are kept, led us to 

 the show ride, which is snugly sheltered on one side by 

 a high paling, and on the other by the felt-covered bull- 

 sheds, which have sliding sides, to put down in cold 

 weather. Heir o' Bulleighan, by Sir James the Rose 

 from Spicey, the subject, like his sire, of a Scottish 

 ballad, was the first to turn out and show his good thick 

 middle-piece on parade ; and then came Cherry Jacket, 

 by Sir Roger from Cherry Empress, and taking his 

 name from her ladyship's pleasant recollections of the 

 lucky colour on the Musjid Derby day. He is not so 

 thick or so full of hair as his companion ; while Lord 

 of Knowsley, by Knight of Windsor from Stanley 

 Rose, had hardly so good a head as he had every right 

 to inherit, but nice hair and handling, and well sprung 

 ribs. The white yearling Brian Horn was a luck- 

 penny of a good massive coinage, with a rare loin and 

 back, but perhaps, to some tastes, hardly masculine 

 enough about the head. Keighley and Craven show- 

 yards remember J^arl of Surrey, by Windsor ; and we 

 remember him more especially for his peculiarly nicely 

 turned hind- quarters and well-furnished leg of beef. 

 To him succeeded a long array of heifers, the first two 

 by Valasco, in which Rosedale, from Rosy, a neat 

 calf, and all Booth, with the exception of the one cross 

 of Master Belleville (a son of Belleville and Booth's 

 Young Moss Rose) ; and the small-eyed Madrid, from 

 Mistress Mary, had to yield to Charlotte's Carlina. 

 The four Sir Rogers included White Lilac, from Lilac, 

 very even and full of substance ; Empress of the East, 

 from Empress of Hindostan, a calf both in its good 

 looks and sweet colour well worthy of a dam who could 

 win fifteen prizes and five H.C.'s, in high company, be- 

 fore she was three years old ; Lady Sarah's Ladye 

 Elinor, neat in the head, and rather Hereford in 

 its colour ; and Princess of Saxe Weimar's Princess 

 Hdivard, following Tosvneley's Victoria in the latter 

 point, and lengthy and full of hair. Victoria 2>oth, an 

 unseen purchase for 180 gs., from Mr. Ellison, of 

 Loughglyn, thencameout fora Dublin rehearsal. She 

 was not placed in the calf class at the Royal last year ; 

 and, good as she is in her breast and carcase, there is a 

 Etumpiness about the head and neck, and a lack of cha- 

 racter about the eye and horn, which sadly reduce her 

 show-chances. Ladye JElfrida, with the nice head 

 and neat bone, came up with her, as another of the 

 voyagers ; and, beyond a tendency to be a little high be_ 

 hind, like her dam Lady Sarah, she passed muster well. 



She is by Prince Alfred, and has the same rich hair and 

 handling, which he so invariably confers on his stock. 

 Then there was Victoria 38/A, a heifer bought of Mr. 

 Chandos Pole, which was only just out of the sick-list ; 

 and Windsor llosebud, half-sister to Magnolia, a dark, 

 rich roan, not remarkable for size, but with a good flank 

 and twist. The setting-on of the head and neck and the 

 fore-quarters of Belle Etolle well justified her lady- 

 ship's determination to have a slice of Wide Awake ; and 

 Pride of Sontliwiche had a pretty head, set off with a 

 peculiarly prominent nostril. Her thighs are not so good , 

 butherhind-quartersare better than Almack's Belle, who 

 is rather vulgarized by large hips, although her crops far 

 more than atone for them. The former calves in August, 

 and it is not certain that she will go into the show-yards 

 this summer, as far too much time has been lost, and 

 she was only grazing in the Park last November. She 

 ii very evenly made, and girthed the' same as "The 

 Queen," to whom she was just a month senior, and 

 would certainly have beaten her for size. Almack's 

 Belle has unfortunately lost her Lord of the Valley calf. 

 Lastly, we had the three cows Empress of Hindostan, 

 Stanley Rose, and 2nd Duchess of Glo'ster, the winners 

 of nearly forty prizes between them. Stanley Rose is a 

 fine slashing cow, who fills the eye, and carries off her 

 big frame and rather staring colour by a small and ex- 

 pressive head. The Duchess is very deep-fleshed, and, 

 with the exception of a slight tendency to fail away 

 near the top of her capital crops, and a slight patchiness 

 near the tail, she is still a very taking cow in a show- 

 yard. After all, there is a compactness and wealth 

 about Empress of Hindostan, who gets a good point 

 from her colour, which brought her up to either of 

 them. All of them were regular breeders, and in-calf 

 to Prince Alfred ; and The Duchess well-nigh solved 

 the problem of perpetual motion, as she calved Ethel- 

 rjioa a few days after her Canterbury pilgrimage, and 

 was winning the first prize at the Durham County within . 

 the week. Such a buxom trio have seldom stood together 

 in one farm-stead, but it was fbr the last time, and 

 when we met two of them in Ireland the next week, the 

 little drama of Stanley Rose, the first scene of which, to 

 our eye, was a bonny seventeen-month heifer, strutting 

 out of her Aldborough box, to stand up before the 

 " Nestor of Shorthorns," by the side of Moss and Ayr- 

 shire Rose, was fast drawing to a close. Some accident 

 happened to the truck on which she rode, a short 

 distance from Holyhead, and there was nothing for it 

 but to take her out, and walk "her through to the town, 

 for a mile or more to the pier. The younger ones tripped 

 it gaily enough over the stones ; and Second Duchess of 

 Glo'ster, as we have just shown, is like a piece of cast- 

 iron ; but the immense weight of Stanley Rose's top 

 fairly crushed her, and it was piteous to see her hobble 

 be'"ore the judges, to receive all the prizes she could 

 win. Her feet were perpetually washed with lotion during 

 the show week, but the fever set into them so fiercely 

 when she reached home, that the strong remedies which 



