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served by him during the season. Evidently, how- 

 ever, they were afraid of reducing the size of 

 their cattle through his use, and in the following 

 November CHARLES COLLING took him off their 

 hands at eight guineas! 



CHARLES evidently thought there might be real 

 value somewhere underneath that mellow hide, 

 notwithstanding the fact that nobody seemed to 

 think much of the bull, and put him in active 

 service for a period of two years, selling him late 

 in 1785, at ten years old, to a Mr. HUBBACK, at 

 North Seton, in Northumberland. The bull had 

 not been deemed worthy even of a name up to 

 this date, but the time came when it was of the 

 highest importance that he receive individual 

 designation. His new owner used him until the 

 year 1791, when he was fourteen years old, and 

 he had been vigorous to the last. As he was ending 

 his long and checkered career, these veterans of the 

 early cattle trade woke up to the fact that they had 

 been dealing with the very element their herds stood 

 most in need of. The name of this Northumberland 

 farmer was then assigned him, and as Hubback he 

 figures in the history of the modern Shorthorn king- 

 dom as the real founder of the dynasty. 



In other volumes I have had occasion to note 



