32 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Gabriel Thornton, who had lived with Mr. May- 

 nard of Eryholme as bailiff for some ten years, 

 entered Charles Colling's service. The quality 

 of the Eryholme cattle naturally came under 

 consideration, and in September of that year 

 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Colling rode over to Mr. 

 Maynard's to inspect the herd.* Their atten- 

 tion was at once claimed by a handsome seven- 

 year-old cow then called Favorite "that Miss 

 Maynard was milking." This cow was a roan 

 possessing the long horns of the old Teeswater 

 type and came from a well-established tribe. 

 She was bought for twenty-eight guineas, and 

 Mr. Colling agreed also to take her heifer calf 

 that received the name of Young Strawberry 

 and was sired by Dalton Duke (188) at ten 

 guineas. At the time of this purchase the 

 cow was again in calf to Dalton Duke and gave 

 birth to a bull to that service at Ketton in 1787. 

 The name of this cow, the most celebrated of 

 all the early matrons of the breed, was changed 

 by Mr. Colling to Lady Maynard. She became 

 the ancestress of several famous families and 

 of the bulls that fairly created " the improved 

 Short-horn." 



The Bull Hubback. While Charles Colling 

 was making these purchases of foundation 

 stock his brother Kobert was not idle. The 



* It is said that Mrs. Colling was quite as much interested in cattle- 

 breeding as her husband, and having no children she had leisure to indulge 

 ber love for the stock. 



