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head then signified his willingness to contend for her by advanc- 

 ing her $500 more, and Mr. E. G. Bedford advanced the figure to 

 $15,000; and here it seemed as if the battle was over, for Mr. 

 Brodhead came back with only $100. Mr. Bedford responded 

 with another $100, Mr. Brodhead made it $300. At this point Mr. 

 Holford of England, considering the Americans had about got 

 through, entered the. lists with a $200 bid, and she stood at $15,- 

 500. Mr. Brodhead greeted his new competitor with an addi- 

 tional $500 bid, to which the Englishman responded with a $1,000, 

 making it $17,000. Mr. Brodhead promptly interposed another 

 $100, and the Englishman, adopting the same tactics, bid $100 

 more, and she climbed up slowly, $100 at a time, until Mr. Brod- 

 head had bid $17,600, when Mr. Holford, as if hoping to shake off 

 the Kentuckian, bid sharply $18,000. And to show that he could 

 not be bluffed by that game Mr. Brodhead added promptly an- 

 other $1,000. Prom $19,000 to $21,000 the bids were $100 each in 

 most cases, and when that point was reached Mr. Holford, seeing 

 the Kentuckian was in no measure disturbed, dropped out of the 

 contest, and Mr. E. G. Bedford came forward, just as she was 

 about to be knocked off, with a $500 bid, Mr. Brodhead respond- 

 ing with a similar amount, and $500 more was bid by Mr. Megib- 

 ben, the gentleman who had purchased the bull, and Mr. Brod- 

 head made it $23,000, and, with $500 jumps, she advanced to $25,- 

 000, as Mr. Bedford's bid. Mr. Brodhead then discovering that 

 it was one of his Kentucky neighbors who was bidding against 

 him declined to go farther, and she was knocked off at $25,000 to 

 Messrs. E. G. Bedford and T. J. Megibben of Kentucky. The an- 

 nouncement that she was to remain in this country again made 

 the audience extremely demonstrative, but when the 



8th Duchess of Geneva was led into the ring a tolerable degree 

 of silence and order was restored. She proved to be a red-and- 

 white, calved July 28, 1866 ; got by the 3d Lord of Oxford (22200) 

 out of the 1st Duchess of Geneva by 2d Grand Duke (12961) ; 

 served June 1 by 2d Duke of Oneida. Being seven years old and 

 over, and having produced nearly the full complement of calves 

 which this family of cows produce in this country, it was not ex- 

 pected that she would sell so well as some of the others, and Mr. 

 Kello doubtless expected to get her on the first bid, when he 

 placed $10,000 on her head. But the other English gentlemen had 

 agreed among themselves that Mr. Kello should not have a Duch- 

 ess, and they raised him at one jump to $15,000 and the audience 

 were at once overcome by the excitement. $16,000 and $17,000 

 were bid from the stand, and then $20,000 by two, one of them 

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