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ling on his armor. He bought Bracelet's son 

 Buckingham, bearing 50 per cent of Old Cherry 

 blood, from his brother John; having already 

 sent his own grand cow, White Strawberry, to 

 be bulled by Lord Lieutenant (4260), of Mr. 

 Raine's breeding. White Strawberry was prob- 

 ably the best cow at Warlaby at that time. 

 She was bred in every direction from the closest 

 affinities of blood, her ancestors, male and fe- 

 male, being filled by repeated crosses with the 

 blood of Albion and Pilot. She was a magnifi- 

 cent broad-backed, wide-breasted animal, quite 

 equal in merit to those buxom matrons, the red 

 Anna and the roan Isabella by Pilot, the two 

 best cows that either of the herds had pre- 

 vious to 1835 produced. The white bull Leon- 

 ard (4210) was the result of this Booth-Eaine 

 union. In those days color did not condemn 

 good cattle to destruction. Leonard was called 

 a "little" bull, but the Booths were never par- 

 tial to big ones. Moreover, he had great loins 

 and widely-spread ribs. He was also rather 

 heavy in the horn, but the laird of Warlaby had 

 confidence in his value as a sire and placed him 

 in service. His blood, blended with that of 

 Buckingham through the veins of that grand 

 galaxy of Booth-bred cows, Isabella, White 

 Strawberry, Bracelet and Charity, ultimately 

 found issue in the world-renowned Crown Prince 

 (10087), the bull of all Booth bulls; the bull that 



