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Kelso, " a whole ox before the shoulder." Old Lady 

 Anne, with brown hair and white marks, was nursing 

 her calf in the byre. The last Kelly relic of 

 Queen Mother, who came here for 40 when she was 

 nearly worn out, and had one calf after, is Victoria 

 by Cupbearer, whose progeny promises well. Lola 

 Montes, the dam of Charlotte, also migrated from 

 Tilly four in her old age ; and she, too, left one pledge 

 behind her, the last sheaf of a very rich harvest. Mr. 

 Bowie had a sale in 1857, when two dozen store 

 animals averaged 37 Os. 7Jd., and twelve bullocks 

 from two-and-a-half to three-and-a-quarter years 30 

 16s. 8d. Caroline, the dam of Clarissa, went at 67 

 guineas to the Earl of Southesk, Standard Bearer, 

 a twenty-two -month bull ' at 89 guineas to Mr. 

 M'Combie, who bought Hanton from this herd, and 

 the two dozen were dispersed into all counties from 

 Essex to Inverness. 



To go to Carnoustie and not call on Dr. Murray 

 was a thing not to be thought of. We had an inter- 

 view with him in that remarkable room, on whose 

 walls hang Voltigeur, Sir Tatton Sykes, and Refrac- 

 tion, and a photo of The Cure when he was down in 

 the world. David Bonella, late groom and surgery 

 boy, holds the son of Physician in stable guise ; 

 and the Doctor, who has a fancy for the camera, 

 has also introduced him at the head of one of the 

 earliest Cures, a filly from Lily Adey. A pile of 

 Ruffs was on the drawers, and he consulted them at 

 intervals, sitting in his shirt sleeves at the edge of his 



