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Foggathorpe ;" but it was upon the tribe of Brawith 

 Bud, " that special legacy of Peter Consitt to Wil- 

 son," that his best herd affections were set. It was 

 a great story of his, and never out of the foot-notes 

 on any consideration, that " 300 gs. had been offered 

 Mr. Wilson in his presence for her daughter Car- 

 mine, who weighed 98 st. imperial as a yearling at 

 Thirsk, if he would only guarantee a calf." 



There was no resisting such Mrs. Armitage propor- 

 tions, and she came to Eden as a speculative bargain 

 for 77 16s. 7d., expenses included, so that the pub- 

 lic were put right on that point to a penny. Brawith 

 Bud was not long in following her for 170 gs. ; and 

 he had the delight of vanquishing at the Brawith sale 

 both J. Booth and J. Maynard, the latter of whom 

 "was heard generally to say that he still thinks her one 

 of the best shorthorns in England." This was the 

 great cow purchase of his life, and he was luckily 

 enabled to record of her that she had paid him 100 

 per cent., was useful till eighteen years of age, and 

 " never a moment unwell, except for a few days in 

 1848 from epizootic influences, or rather epidemic 

 influenza," which, as he afterwards observes, " only 

 confirmed the health and vigour of the patients/' 

 She was of a vigorous, longlived sort, as' her sire Sir 

 Walter was good at sixteen; and her daughter Jenny 

 Lind, from whom sprang the Kirkhee sort at Sitty- 

 ton, was rejected along with Mint by Robin-a-Day 

 at Turriff, because their long hair gave the judges an 

 idea that they were crosses from West Highlands. 



