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chased, after winning at his Grace's milking com- 

 petition, at a pound for every pound of the highest 

 day's produce, She is "no in tid" now, and she 

 passed on with The Quey, Jersey, and Risk, who 

 has a deal of Colly Hill about her. Then we note 

 the deer-horn and speckled white flank of the red 

 Empress, a prize taker at Ayr, the rich colour, fine 

 muzzles, and rare vessels of Strathaven and B rocky, 

 a first and Second at Perth, Maybole and Dalrymple 

 of the old style, Idiot who will keep her head in the 

 m anger listlessly for an hour together, Queen of 

 Hearts, and the loving, speckled pair Bryony and 

 Susan who are never ten yards apart. Coda, with 

 the fine deer-like eye, has a beautiful vessel and a 

 good enough tail, albeit a tale hung thereon at Ayr ; 

 but, alas ! Belle's teats do not hang perfectly square. 

 Colly Hill is a living proof that a really orthodox 

 vessel will stand after six. Her early promise was 

 not very remarkable, as she was sold as a two-year-old 

 for 14, and gradually rose from 20, J240, and 

 .80 to 90, at which price his Grace bought her 

 after she won at Edinburgh in 1859, and then re- 

 fused 400 in two quarters for her at Battersea. A 

 portrait of her by Gourlay Steell, with the head 

 dairymaid at her side, is over the sideboard in the 

 dining-room at Dunkeld. There are no queys from her 

 as yet, but she had a nice, little, younger son, in the 

 calf-house ; though a climb and a peep at her oldest 

 son, Colly, in the shed near the saw-pit, was not so 

 satisfactory. 



