152 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



Scarboro and the fine bull Statesman, measur- 

 ing twenty-six inches from " hooks" to tail. At 

 Aldboro the roan Rosette was also bred (1856) 

 and sold to Mr. Eastwood, who declared her the 

 "best calf" he ever saw and afterward "the 

 sweetest cow." She was winner of many Royal 

 and other prizes and challenge cups. This herd 

 was at length dispersed at a memorable auction 

 sale which was well attended, and averaged 

 about seventy- three guineas for forty-eight lots. 

 Stanley Rose topped the sale amid great cheer- 

 ing at 300 guineas from Lady Pigot. 



In the course of his long and active connec- 

 tion with the trade Mr. Wetherell acquired a 

 great fund of "cattle lore/' and he was never 

 happier than when in the company of kindred 

 spirits with whom he could hold discourse on 

 the "red, white and roan." That delightful 

 "gossip" of days "lang syne," the late H. H. 

 Dixon, who under the nom de plume of " The 

 Druid" has fairly thrown a glamour of romance 

 about the lives and characters of the leading 

 British breeders and sportsmen of the ' olden 

 times, writing of Wetherell, his home and his 

 friends, says: 



"'Nestor's' little home at Aldborough has many a herd me- 

 mento on its walls. There is the cow bred by Mr. Thomas Booth 

 which he sold at two years old to Mr. Carter of Theakstone and 

 then bought back at beef price and put to Comus (1861). She had 

 three heifers, and Mr. Rennie Sr. of Phantassie bid him 500 guin- 

 eas for them and ended by buying the oldest out of the pasture 

 for 250 guineas. The second went to Mr. Whitaker, Three roans 



