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grass pasture, shaded with groups of grand old oaks and walnuts, 

 we reined up to the fence, dismounted, hitched our horse, and 

 went into the field. The cattle were just, as Youatt and our 

 pictures describe them, blue, and red roans, and white backs and 

 bellies, with horns long, curving forward, and drooping under 

 the jaws ; their bodies were round and full, showing high marks 

 of growth and thrift, a bull, some cows, and calves. How 

 they came there, or who they belonged to, we did not particu- 

 larly inquire at the time, having then little curiosity, or interest 

 in cattle. Not again going there until thirty years later, we 

 heard nothing more of the cattle, and then, on inquiry of one or 

 two of the oldest settlers in the vicinity, we could learn nothing 

 of them, only, " that they recollected some man, rich, and a 

 large landholder thereabouts, had driven some ' imported ' cattle 

 in there, but what became of them they did not know, and no 

 trace was left of them." 



Thus ends our story of the long-horns in America. We 

 trust that they may again be imported here, and have a fair trial. 



