XXXIV 



"SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE 

 FORGOT?" 



Reference has already been made to MORTIMER 

 LEVERING and HOWARD DAVISON as men who not 

 only were instrumental in founding the International 

 Live Stock Exposition, but subsequently contributed 

 largely to the creation of the atmosphere that has 

 placed the SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB distinctly in 

 a class by itself. Both were members of what has 

 been termed "The Old Guard." The former was 

 unhappily called hence before his allotted time, but 

 his portrait speaks to us still of golden hours when 

 congenial spirits met to cultivate the joys of friend- 

 ships based upon mutual interests. 



"MORT" came to us from Indiana. A devoted 

 admirer of highly-bred animals, wherever the na- 

 tion's choicest specimens were gathered for com- 

 petition there would you find him. At Madison 

 Square Garden, at Toronto, Chicago, or at leading 

 state exhibitions, in Kentucky or Virginia, or may- 

 hap at an English Royal, he might be seen among 

 the real enthusiasts. For years secretary and gen- 

 eral manager for the American Shropshire Sheep 

 Breeders' Association, he drew into that organization 

 one of the largest memberships ever enjoyed by 



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