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sold with five cows and heifers in a lot at 100 to 

 150 gs. each to Mr. Barclay of Keevil, and calved the 

 Lord llaglan triplet. 



" The Champion" was at Udny farm, hut there 

 were still five or six left for a grand parade at Sitty- 

 ton. "Forth" was roused from his lair, and Anthony 

 Cruickshank took him in hand. Nothing will reduce 

 that wonderfully level bulk and even when he had 

 "been starved for some weeks, to make him take to 

 turnips, his pipe of oaten straw quite solaced him. He 

 was terribly sea-sick both ways on his journey from 

 Aberdeen to Newcastle (to which he got a fifteen 

 shillings return ticket), and yet his eye was as bright 

 and his handling as firm as ever, after a Sunday's 

 rest in the show-yard. In short, there never was 

 such a philosophic " fat boy in Pickwick." The Czar 

 and Lord Chamberlain, two sons of Lord Raglan, 

 were in the hands of the men; and Lord llaglan, 

 once nearly as victorious in his crusade to the show- 

 yard as his mighty sire beloved of Anthony Maynard, 

 came roaring in the old style round the corner, and 

 kept Amos and his white crush-hat almost on the 

 run. Still it seemed very doubtful whether he would 

 live to see the turnips ; and Edward Cruikshanfs 

 charge, Sir James the Rose, once the great prize 

 heifer getter of Athelstaneford, was only a grand ruin. 

 There were ten bulls, five here and five at the other 

 farms ; and Grand Monarque, Lord Chamberlain, 

 Sir Walter Scott, and Prince Imperial have taken 

 the place of these two seniors, to carry on the great 



