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not allowed to grow cool in the intervals between the 

 morning and afternoon meals. Only three yearling 

 bullocks were in the house, one of them looking 

 nearly 7 cwt. already, at nineteen months, and 

 another lacking the scale, but very similar in shape 

 to the Poissy ox. 



We found the cows with the heifer calves (which 

 are all setoned and oilcaked when weaned) in the 

 pasture close by the house, busy among the new 

 grass left over by the bullocks, to whom they always 

 play second. Foremost among them was the square- 

 made Lovely (by Rob Roy from The Belle), the first 

 heifer at Battersea, and a cup winner at Aberdeen 

 during the time when Mr. M'Combie held that 

 trophy for three years in succession. She still re- 

 tains much of the style which pulled her through on 

 that day ; and Elf of Aberdeen by Black Prince was 

 at her side. The Balwhyllo heifer rejoiced in her 

 Jet of Aberdeen. There, too, was the once well- 

 named Beauty, from Mr. Watson's of Keillor, a fine- 

 sized cow, which fetched 62 gs. at his sale, and she 

 too could boast of a rare Jilt of Aberdeen. This 

 species of nomenclature reached its climax in the 

 calf of Zarah, the second Battersea heifer. 



' ' None half so fragrant, half so fair, 

 As Kate of Aberdeen," 



ays the old song ; and Mr. M'Combie took the hint 

 and named her calf accordingly, and found himself 

 fully justified at Newcastle and Stirling. The dam, 

 which is ail going to milk, and has quite sunk her 



