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animal or animals. If AMOS had possessed a clear and 

 fixed opinion at the start as to what was required 

 by his environments as had BATES when he began, 

 possibly their success might have been more imme- 

 diate. But he was the canny Scot. He would feel 

 his way. He would follow no man's lead. BATES 

 might boast as much as he liked of his week's 

 butter and his Duchess-Princess style, refinement 

 and prepotency. The nobility and gentry of the 

 south might stand in line begging BOOTH to sell a 

 female or lease a favorite sire. He came from a 

 far country, where the soil was not deep, the re- 

 wards of husbandry not lavish, and where the bumps 

 of caution, thrift and conservatism were fully devel- 

 oped. He had little to say, but he did a deal of 

 thinking. And wherever they found a beast that they 

 thought might serve their purpose, they bought it. 

 And so from widely different sources both north 

 and south o' Tweed were purchased the cows, heifers 

 and bulls with which they wrought until around 1 860. 

 Among these were such excellent bulls as the 

 ToRR-bred Fairfax Royal; Matadore, bred in Lincoln- 

 shire and an own brother in blood to Mr. R. A. 

 ALEXANDER'S celebrated cow Mazurka; Plantagenet, 

 bred by TOWNELEY and bought from DOUGLAS of 

 Athelstaneford; the pure BOOTH Buckingham, for 



