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Druid, from Dora of Ruxton of FarnelPs breeding 

 and of a Keillor strain. This cow was a very re- 

 markable breeder, and never missed, except upon 

 the occasion of her Paris trip. She also bred Dul- 

 cinea, an own sister to Druid, and a first-prize taker 

 at the Angus show. Her Diodorus by Windsor 

 took a first International prize at Hamburg, and 

 was sold to Russia; and her Kathleen by Strath- 

 more (one of old Grannie's calves) is now quite a 

 herd notable, as she is the dam of Calliope by 

 Raven, a Druid bull, and granddam, through 

 Calliope, of Clio, the first-prize yearling at 

 Kelso. 



The Druid won more than his sire, and, including 

 the 25 at Chester (where he and his sister Dulcinea 

 and his half-sister Oriana took firsts in three classes), 

 he gathered up 100 among the show-yards in his 

 day. He was more of a show bull than Cupbearer, 

 more level in his points and longer in his quarters, 

 and with finer style altogether; but although he was 

 used for a season or two more in the herd, he did not 

 leave such a mark for good. He was sent to Bat- 

 tersea when he was eight years old and had quite lost 

 his bloom; and although the judges allowed that he 

 was " perhaps in some respects better," despite his 

 age, they could only place him second to Prospero, 

 " a bull of very fine quality but small in size." The 

 portraits of him and his sire hang side by side in the 

 Castle library. 



Windsor succeeded the Druid, and took the first 



