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being Mr. Kello, and some one of the English party made it $25,- 

 000. Mr. Kello made it $26,000, and his opponents $30,000. Mr. 

 Kello added $1,000 more, and his bid was promptly raised to $32,- 

 000. Then $33,000 came from the stand (from either Col. King, 

 Col. Morris, Mr. Murray, or G. M. Bedford), and was the highest 

 American bid, and Mr. Kello raised that to $34,000, when the 

 other Englishmen made it $36,000. Mr. Kello hesitated, but re- 

 membering his unsuccessful contest for the 10th Duchess of Ge- 

 neva, and that his countrymen had combined to rule him out 

 altogether from this much-coveted family, he determined to take 

 Lord Skelmersdale's advice to Mr. Berwick and "buy Tier," and 

 added $500, which brought $37,000 from his opponents. " Thirty- 

 eight thousand," said Mr. Kello. Evidently thinking that one more 

 bold push would crowd Kello from the course one of them bid 

 forty thousand dollars! For a moment Mr. Kello faltered, but finally 

 added $100. Here she seemed likely to go, but Mr. Berwick added 

 $100 more. " Forty thousand three hundred dollars, just in time, from 

 Mr. Kello." The excitement was now so intense that every indi- 

 vidual in that vast throng seemed to hold .his breath ; the silence 

 was absolutely oppressive, and broken only by the words of the 

 auctioneer as he slowly repeated: "Forty thousand three 

 hundred dollars Are you all done gentlemen? " Softly 

 Simon Beattie, with an English order in his pocket and Mr. Coch- 

 rane at his back, ventured another $100. "Forty thousand four 

 hundred; are you all done gentlemen? " were the measured words 

 which alone broke the deathly silence. Reluctant to go farther, 

 still more reluctant to yield, Mr. Kello stood like a statue, while 

 every eye was resting upon him, and finally added $50 more. 

 "Five hundred," said Berwick, in a sharp, impatient tone, as if 

 anxious to end in some way the terrible suspense. "Forty thou- 

 sand five hundred dollars; are you all done? Once! Twice! Six 

 hundred, and in time," and she was knocked off to Mr. Kello for R. 

 Pavin Da vies of England. One long breath, and then the cheers 

 went up, and the thousands- there seemed fairly beside' them- 

 selves, and the extravagant things which were said and done 

 would fill a volume. A few minutes were given to allow people 

 to recover their senses, and then the 



10th Duchess of Oneida was led in a last spring's calf (dropped 

 in April), red-and- white, by the 2d Duke of Oneida out of 8th 

 Duchess of Geneva by 3d Lord Oxford (22200) . Before order was 

 restored Col. Morris of New York started her at $5,000. Col. King 

 of Minnesota, who sat beside him, made it $10,000 ; $11,000 and $12,- 

 000 were bid, when George M. Bedford of Kentucky from the seat 



