218 FIELD AND FERN. 



There was once no better polled stock to be 

 found in Angus than at Fullarton's of Mains of 

 Ardovie, whose Queen of Ardovie was the dam of 

 M'Combie's Queen Mother. The Keillor herd 

 is dispersed, but the rest keep Aberdeenshire, 

 Kincardineshire, Banffshire, and Morayshire very 

 fairly at bay in the Highland Society's lists 

 for the honour of the " shire." Besides Lord 

 Southesk and Mr. Bowie, Mr. Mustard of 

 Leuchland is a very old breeder, and has always 

 crossed with Keillor and Kinnaird Castle blood. 

 Lord Southesk' s brother, the member for the county, 

 keeps a few at Arrafs Mill, which has always been 

 celebrated for its old breed, and bought some 

 more at the last Balwyllo sale ; and Mr. Goodlet of 

 Bolshan posed the two Walkers, who were repre- 

 sented by Jehu and Sambo, with his Dahome} 7 by 

 Windsor, from Oriana by Cupbearer (so called after 

 his noble owner's State office), in the two-year-old 

 bull class at Stirling. 



Mr. Lyell of Shiel Hill, near Kirren^uir (brother 

 to Sir George Lyell, the great geologist), who 

 dipped well into Southesk Mariner, had a first 

 prize with his Prospero at Battersea, and a third 

 with Commodore Trunnion at Kelso ; and Mr. 

 Leslie of The Thorn, Blairgowrie, defeated the 

 Black Prince of Tillyfour and the Black Diamond 

 of Montbletton, both for the first and second 

 yearling prizes, at Stirling, with his President 3rd 

 blood. Mr. Scott of Balwyllo died in 1842, since 



