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600 bid, and finally cabled: "Don't sell the cow. 

 Have arranged to take her." This arrived too 

 late, however, as the trade with Col. Morris had 

 been closed. The cow, being forward in calf, 

 was left at Mr. Campbell's farm until parturi- 

 tion should take place. A few days before her 

 time she dropped a fully-developed dead heifer 

 calf, and soon thereafter the cow herself died, 

 all efforts to save her proving fruitless.* Mr. 

 Davies then sent a bill of exchange for $5,000 

 to Mr. Campbell, which was handed over to 

 Col. Morris, thus alleviating to that extent his 

 lamentable loss. Morris had no thought of 

 buying a Duchess before the sale, but as the 

 bidding progressed and the "plums" seemed 

 falling steadily to the English party, Samuel 

 Thorne remarked to Col. Morris: "It is a pity 

 there is no American Gunter here." This was 

 an allusion to the first contest for the posses- 

 sion of the Duchesses at the Tortworth sale in 

 England in 1853, as noted on page 242. Upon 

 that occasion Gunter had driven out to Earl 

 Ducie's without the slightest idea of becoming 

 a bidder, but in response to an appeal to the 

 "patriotism" of the large crowd of Englishmen 

 present to prevent the capture of the tribe 

 bodily by the Americans he entered the lists. 



*It has been said by those familiar with the facts that the 8th Duchess 

 was literally done to her death by an ignorant Irish employe of Mr. Camp- 

 bell's. She developed at parturition a case of false presentation, with 

 which she wrestled for thirty-six hours, while the poor beast was driven 



