12 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



little gardens fancy can portray. So cosily 

 does it seem ensconced that the wintry blasts 

 from the neighboring German ocean surely 

 lose a part of their hyperborean rigor before 

 they reach that quiet fireside. We are in far- 

 off Aberdeen. A white-haired octogenarian, 

 Amos Cruickshank, there awaited the peaceful 

 ending of a life that proved eminently useful 

 to his fellow men, pure and elevating in its 

 character, and fruitful of results to the Short- 

 horn world. Modestly the Nestor of North 

 Country cattle-breeding told us something of 

 his life and work. We left him, the sage of 

 Sittyton, standing there amidst the greenery 

 of his shrubs and flowers, and as we looked 

 around upon the fields and paddocks that once 

 held Champion of England, Pride of the Isles, 

 Roan Gauntlet and Royal Northern, and High- 

 land winners by the score, we felt the spell of 

 a wondrous story brooding over those silent 

 Scottish "braes." 



What have these men, their colleagues and 

 their followers, accomplished? What is the na- 

 ture of their legacy? Let us first turn for par- 

 tial answer to the world's greatest exhibition 

 of live stock and agricultural products. We 

 are under the medieval walls of Castle War- 

 wick. The flower of British Short-horn herds 

 is assembled in the park. The meeting of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society of England is 



