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in the East Riding of Yorkshire; "his long, 

 low-pitched house, with the dark-green Cotoni- 

 astus creeping over it and peeping with its red 

 flowrets in at every lattice/' being "quite the 

 realization of a snug Yorkshire home." He 

 was a great lover of Leicester sheep and Short- 

 horns, and in 1814 began cattle-breeding by 

 hiring from Wright of Cleasby a son of the 

 $5,000 Comet. Adonis, another Comet bull, 

 did him much good service, and was followed 

 by an own brother, Jupiter (343), the succession 

 being maintained by North Star (459) and Har- 

 old (291), which were returned to Robert Col- 

 ling before the Barmpton sale of 1818. At that 

 event he bought the ten-year-old bull Midas 

 (435), after a bit of warm work with Sir Wil- 

 liam Coolie, at 270 guineas. From Midas he 

 bred his great Grazier (1085), that was used by 

 Sir John Johnstone, Lord Feversham, Smith of 

 West Rasen and others until fourteen years of 

 age. One of his best sons was Ganthorpe (2049), 

 bred at Castle Howard. Whitaker blood was 

 introduced by Mr. Wiley through His Highness 

 (2125), an own brother to the 210-guinea High- 

 flyer at the Mason sale. Sultan (1485), a de- 

 scendant of Gen. Simson's 300-guinea purchase, 

 Mary, at C. Colling's sale, was also used after 

 having proved his worth by siring in Northum- 

 berland a class of cattle that the border breed- 

 ers for many years fondly styled "the good old 



