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The Messrs. Cruickshank often bouglit from him,, 

 and there was a good deal of joking, when Premium 

 was knocked down to them, with the foot-note " It 

 is more than probable her next will be a bull-calf," 

 and it proved to be a heifer. 



Holkar, bred by Mr. Bates, was a great fancy of 

 his, and he delighted to write of him and Sir Fairfax 

 2nd as "the rival bulls." He was so worked up with 

 a desire to possess him that he offered 500 gs. for 

 him if twenty-two bulls and bull-calves by him 

 reached that sum at a sale. They did not, and he 

 got his wish gratified at a much easier rate. Still, 

 Uobin-a-Day was his " Comet" of the North, and he 

 gave the Formartine district more especially a proof 

 of his good "Carcase" descent. The price was 44 gs., 

 and both he and Mr. Knox made more than 200 gs. 

 a-piece out of him. We have lingered very fondly 

 over these relics of one who blended so much hearty 

 enthusiasm with his science. Unhappily for us, he 

 had died ten years before we looked on the woods of 

 Eden. " Jenny Lind, 100 gs. (Mr. Tanqueray)," 

 was the highest lot at the roup, and the Messrs. 

 Cruickshank marked their estimate of Brawith Bud 

 with 92 gs. for her Pure Gold. 



We bade good-bye to Banff, and got out at the 

 Turriff station for a six -mile walk in search of the 

 only Hereford colony in Scotland, which lies about six 

 miles from the rail, through the heart of the old 

 "Kintore country," that "Nimrod" speaks of, in his 

 delightful f ' Northern Tour," as ( ' one in which more 



