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Kirklevington dispersion of 1850, with which our 

 last sketch was concluded. Upon that occasion 

 Duchess 54th was bought by Mr. EASTWOOD for 

 94 10s. for Gol. TOWNELEY. The latter was a man 

 of catholic tastes and wealth, wedded to no partic- 

 ular line of procedure, a lover of good cattle, with 

 an inquiring and receptive mind. To him the Short- 

 horn world was afterwards indebted for the won- 

 derful TOWNELEY Butterflies. Sacrilegious as it would 

 doubtless have appeared to THOMAS BATES, Duchess 

 54th was bulled by the white Lord George, son of 

 Bracelet's daughter Birthday. A bull calf named 2d 

 Duke of Athol was the fruit of this union of the 

 two great rival houses, and while engaged in buy- 

 ing a large selection of well-bred cattle from the 

 best sources for shipment to Kentucky, Mr. ALEX- 

 ANDER saw and liked and bought the young Duke 

 bearing this bar sinister upon his BATES escutcheon, 

 and also his sister of the pure blood, a daughter of 

 Duchess 54th, called Duchess of Athol. This was 

 in 1853. The Duke was then a yearling and the 

 Duchess a two-year-old, the sum of 500 guineas 

 being given for the pair, a fact which indicates how 

 rapidly values had risen since the dispersion sale a 

 few years previously, and incidentally proving once 

 again the old, old proposition that the time to buy 



