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sweepstakes at Perth, when he was thirteen ; and 

 Black Jock (3) and Young Jock (4) kept up the 

 line. 



" Keillor Watson," as he is always called, began to 

 show in 1810, and won upwards of two hundred 

 prizes for sheep and ' Noddies" in the next thirty-three 

 years, principally at Strathmore (Cupar Angus), the 

 Highland Society, and the Royal Irish. Some of 

 these must be credited to thorough-breds and cart- 

 horses, and among the medals and other trophies 

 there are not a few race-cups. Old breeders still 

 speak with rapture of the heifers which he showed at 

 Perth in '29 ; and his Leicester rams were so good 

 and level on that occasion, that each of the three 

 judges had got a different one for first. 'Twenty- 

 nine was also the year of his Smithfield heifer ; and 

 so delighted was Earl Spencer, the President of the 

 Club, with her, that he requested that she should be 

 modelled and struck off on a medal. He also 

 gave the Irish a taste of his quality, and made several 

 large sales there. His four-year-old Angus ox 

 went over, and was placed first for the Purcell 

 Challenge Cup at Belfast, -and yet, strange to say, 

 died after all in the plough at the Royal Home Farm 

 when he was rising eighteen. Still his fame was 

 in all lands, as a traveller in India found his portrait 

 pasted up on a temple of Vishnu. His longevity was 

 hereditary from his dam old Grannie, who gave no 

 milk after she was 28, and ended in July, '59, a 

 pilgrimage of 35i years. From one to three she was 



