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Hope, then three years old, defeated all other 

 cows of her age in the yard, repeating the per- 

 formance at the Yorkshire at Wakefield. Not 

 only did the handsome Hope accomplish this in 

 1846, but what was even more to the point dur- 

 ing that same year she produced to the cover 

 of Buckingham the red heifer Charity, that sub- 

 sequently attained imperishable renown as the 

 mother of 



Crown Prince (10087). This extraordinary 

 breeding bull was a roan, dropped by Charity 

 May 10, 1849, to a service by the white Fitz 

 Leonard (7010). Mr. Carr says: "Of Charity, 

 who so long graced the Warlaby pastures, it is 

 sufficient to say that she was the personifica- 

 tion of all that is beautiful in Short-horn shape. 

 Such was her regularity of form that a straight 

 wand laid along her side longitudinally from 

 the lower flank to the forearm and from the 

 hips to the upper part of the shoulder blades 

 touched at almost every point; her quarters 

 were so broad, her crops and shoulders so full, 

 her ribs so boldly projected, and the space be- 

 tween them and the well-cushioned hips so 

 arched over with flesh as to form a continuous 

 line. It was difficult for the most hypercritical 

 eye to detect a failing point in this perfectly- 

 molded animal, and it was in consequence of 

 Mr. Booth's high appreciation of her merits and 

 those of her son that he made such free use of 



