122 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



show -yard companion of the twins, had a 

 daughter, Pelerine, from whence came those 

 " three graces," Rose of Autumn, Rose of Sum- 

 mer and Rose of Athelstane, in the herd of Mr. 

 Douglas of Atheistaneford. 



John Booth's sale. After playing a promi- 

 nent part in the show-yard for a number of 

 years and demonstrating beyond all dispute 

 the flesh-making qualities and prepotent char- 

 acter of his cattle "the Squire of Killerby" 

 sold his herd at auction in July, 1852, the sale 

 being attended by breeders from all parts of 

 the Kingdom. The depression prevailing at 

 the time of the Bates sale still continued, and 

 some of the animals were a few years later re- 

 sold for three times the price paid at the sale. 

 The forty-four lots averaged 48 12s. Bloom 

 brought 110 guineas from Mr. Ambler, and 

 Birthright 105 guineas from Mr. Douglas. 

 After the dispersion John Booth did not again 

 engage extensively in cattle-breeding.* His 



*Mr Booth was a very fine-looking 1 man, upward of six feet and fifteen 

 stone, with rare hands and a fine eye to hounds. This was the sport ho 

 loved best, and when he was on Jack o' Lantern or Rob Roy few men could 

 cross the Bedale country with him. * * * He was full of joviality and 

 good stories as well as the neatest of practical jokes. His friend Weth- 

 erell generally had his guard up, but when he received a letter, apparently 

 from the Earl of Tankerviile, saying 1 that he was to lot and sell the wild 

 White cattle of Chilungham, he puzzled for minutes as to how on earth Hia 

 Lordship ever intended to catch them and bring them into the ring before 

 he guessed the joke and its author. * * * Booth judged a great deal in 

 England, and never went for great size either in a bull or a cow. As a man 

 of fine, steady judgment in a cattle-ring he has perhaps never had an equal. 

 He died in 1857, after a weary twelve months' illness, in his seventieth year, 

 at Killerby, and a memorial window at Catterick, where he rests, was put 

 up by his friends and neighbors and the Short-horn world as well." Saddlt 

 2nd Sirloin. 



