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tion than it had yet attained at Killerby. He 

 purchased from his father the cow Bright Eyes, 

 by Lame Bull, and her two heifers by Albion- 

 Ariadne and Agnes. Ariadne became at Stud- 

 ley the dam of the famous Anna by Pilot.* 



The Isabellas. This great Studley tribe was 

 bred from another one of those Darlington 

 market cows a roan of untraced breeding, ex- 

 cept that she was got by "Mr. Burrell's Bull of 

 Burdon." Her color and her quality consti- 

 tuted her passport into Richard Booth's good 

 judgment. She is said to have possessed "a 

 remarkably ample development of fore quar- 

 ters/' and Mr. Bruere, who afterward bred a 

 noted herd of Booth cattle, remarks that as a 

 schoolboy at Ripon he " well remembered the 

 brimming pails of milk she gave." Bred to 

 Agamemnon (9), of the Killerby Bright Eyes 

 blood, she produced the " White Cow," which, 

 mated with Pilot, dropped "the matchless Isa- 

 bella, so long remembered in show-field annals 

 and to this day quoted as a perfect specimen of 

 her race."f 



*Anna was one of the best show cows of her day, and in 1824 walked 

 from Studley to Manchester Show, "gaining- first prize there, walking 1 back, 

 and producing within a fortnight Young Anna." Anna is said to have borne 

 a close resemblance to Queen of the Ocean. She also gave birth to Ade- 

 laide, the highest-priced female sold at the Studley sale in 1834, and was the 

 grandam of Mr. Storer's Princess Julia. From Anna, through her daughter 

 Young Anna, were descended two of Mr. Torr's families; and from Agnes, 

 daughter of Bright Eyes, came Mr. Fawkes' Verbena and her descendants. 

 Agamemnon, an own brother of Ariadne, was "a bull of extraordinary sub- 

 stance, good hind quarters, heavy flanks, deep twist and well-covered hips." 



tSpeaking of Isabella, Mr. Carr siys: "Pedestrians crossing the fields 

 to the ruins of Fountain Abbey might generally see her and Anna, perhaps 



