172 PIELD AND FERN. 



Lola Montes and Bloomer (which, like Windsor, was 

 first at the Highland Society and Windsor Shows), 

 and Charlotte and The Belle, another Highland So- 

 ciety first, but not with the size of her dam, were the 

 respective results. Hanton, whose show career em- 

 braced nine firsts from Alford to Poissy, where even 

 the Emperor could not buy him, got both Pride of 

 Aberdeen and Daisy from Charlotte, who also had 

 Crinoline, nee White Legs, by Victor 3rd (193); while 

 Fancy was the produce of him and The Belle, and 

 his son Rob Roy McGregor (267) followed suit with 

 Lovely. And so the succession has gone on Monarch, 

 Angus, Hanton, " Rob Roy" (267), Black Prince by 

 "Rob Roy," and lastly Rifleman, who is by " Rob Roy" 

 from Pride of Aberdeen a son and daughter of Han- 

 ton which is as nearly in-and-in as Mr. M'Combie 

 dares to go, much as he likes the blood. Kinnaird 

 Castle, Balwhyllo, Ardgay, and Monbletton have also 

 furnished their contingents in Empress and Dulci- 

 mer, Lady Agnes, Zarah, Mayflower, and another 

 Mayflower, &c. Mr. M f Combie bought both these 

 " Mowers," after they had stood first and second at 

 Perth, and liked the second-prize one decidedly the 

 best of the two. 



Scotland is very true to her champions, and when 

 all this thought and energy culminated in the Poissy 

 and Battersea triumphs, four hundred neighbours 

 and breeders, with the late Marquis of Huntly in 

 the chair, assembled to do Mr. M'Combie honour by 

 a banquet, which was one of, if not the largest, ever 



