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late Duke of Hamilton, and bought a bull at 

 three bullocks at .128, and four two and three year old 

 queys for 219, and at Kelso he added some more 

 " Breadalbanes" from Hamilton to his stock. We 

 found Donald, who had not belied his price in the 

 Stirling and Newcastle lists, wandering leisurely with 

 the brindled Oscar and the dun bull in front of a 

 German artist, who was not falling back on the In- 

 finite for his conceptions, but soberly sketching under 

 a huge umbrella from plain beef and blood. The pre- 

 sent Duke keeps on the West Highland cattle, and 

 has thirty in the breeding herd, about half of which 

 are cows. 



The calves are generally dropped in April, 

 and weaned in October, and run with their dams at 

 the end of three days. Four "Breadalbane" bullocks 

 were at the steading beyond Toll Damh. The light 

 yellow and the dun we had met before, when they 

 reversed their places at Kelso and Stirling; and a 

 light red, with the beautiful fan ear, and a dark red, 

 with a coil of hay rope tossed by chance over his fore 

 ribs as if to challenge the tape-line, made up the 

 shaggy group. They were all four-year-olds; and 

 though Macdonald allows that the "Stirling dun is a 

 braw stot, and the Kelso yellow has not an inch to 

 mend, and horns as straight as you can set them ;" 

 still he carries in his eye an unbeaten yellow of 

 Mr. Campbell's of Monzie, which won at Perth and 

 Edinburgh ten or twelve years ago, and considers 

 him far ahead of them. They were living on the 



