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are there from Herring's hand and painted in Memnon's year, 

 when he was a struggling coachman-artist in Spring Gardens, 

 Doncaster. Comet (155) is said to be the only one by Weaver in 

 existence. Mr. Wetherell always thought Comet too long, but 

 still a more elegant bull than Duke of Northumberland, who had 

 also to struggle against rather upright shoulders. Comet's kith 

 and kin are there in St. John and Gaudy, by Favorite, bred by 

 Mason, who always loved good hair. 



"'Bid me discourse' is an invitation Mr. Wetherell never 

 shrank from; and, with the brothers Colling, Mr. Thomas Booth' 

 Sir Tatton Sykes, Capt. Barclay and Mr. Wiley on his walls, it 

 would be strange if he did not sit by the hour in his easy chair 

 and tell of old times and Short-horn doings when they were all in 

 the flesh. At times the gig comes for the Chief Baron to go over 

 and spend a few days at Killerby and Warlaby. He presides 

 there in great state at those ' high-private trials ' of Short-horns 

 under the trees in the home garth and cites the Charity prece- 

 dents. Mr. John Outhwaite frequently assists, and, adopting a 

 mode of practice quite unknown to the Westminster law courts, 

 that learned Baron generally backs his opinion from the bench for 

 one, if not two, new hats. 



"'Great constitution' is Mr. Wetherell's leading tenet, but 

 ' great size ' never was ; and if he does illustrate it he goes to Col. 

 Cradock, who gloried in it, and whose "Magnum Bonum was like the 

 Great Eastern." He always considers that Earl Spencer began the 

 bull trade and made Short-horns, so to speak, fashionable with 

 the landlords. It was the thing to go to Wiseton more especially 

 about the St. Leger time and if visitors liked a cow they bar- 

 gained to give 50 for the produce. The Earl crossed in till he 

 sacrificed constitution they had thin fore quarters and no breasts 

 and it was then that Mason, a very clever, first-rate judge, a 

 hater of ' fool's fat ' and open shoulders, and most decided about 

 fore quarters and a good neck vein, came to the Earl's aid. Whit- 

 aker was a great keeper, and all for the milk-bag, and Bates' mel- 

 low, light-fleshed sort grew less and less robust they would get 

 fat, but they would not swell and thicken like the Booths, which 

 will stand any amount of high pressure. Such is a mere fragment 

 of his confession of Short -horn faith." 



From WetherelPs herd came some of the 

 best of the early American importations into 

 New England. 



Wiley of Brandsby. Samuel Wiley resided 



