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tendency to bend upwards that was not altogether 

 pleasing to those who sought beauty first in looking 

 at a Shorthorn. At that time Gol. HARRIS did not 

 know the story of old Lancaster Comet, as referred 

 to elsewhere in these sketches. If so, he would 

 have had readier answer to these critics. The 

 Baron was a richly- colored red, not the blackish- 

 red that so persisted in the descendants of the 

 $17,900 14th Duke of Thornedale, but verging on 

 the yellow side that golden skin that was once 

 one of the crowning glories of ABRAM RENICK'S 

 Roses of Sharon. He had the short, broad face, wide 

 between his full bright eyes, that is the almost 

 unerring sign of the quick feeder, the good "doer," 

 and as he grew to maturity he developed a wealth 

 of curly hair about the horn-base and across the 

 forehead. In after years Gol. HARRIS who was one 

 of the closest students of hereditary power I have 

 ever known often spoke of this latter characteristic 

 as an almost infallible sign of prepotency. Of 

 course if these locks grew upon the head of a bull 

 not satisfactory in point of general conformation, 

 that would count against rather than for him, be- 

 cause in the case mentioned it would forecast the 

 stamping of undesirable points; but Gol. HARRIS 

 always held the long, curly frontlet to be a marked 



