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happy to say he's rallying : he puts them all right 

 on the top. ' Englishman ! here's an old friend come 

 to see you. 3 He always roars this way when any one 

 comes in that he doesn't know. He was blistered 

 on the chest and gullet. We have given him aconite 

 to act on his heart, and now he gets digitalis and 

 green food/' 



Not a Fife cow was to be found even as wet-nurse 

 in the herd ; and now that they have been struck 

 out of the Highland Society's list, we did not care 

 to search for them beyond the Society's picture. 

 Some of them had brocky faces, and the popular be- 

 lief is that they owed their origin to Germany. They 

 are middle-sized horned blacks, not unlike the old 

 Hamburgh breed, or it might be said a cross between 

 an Ayrshire and an Angus, and alike good for the 

 shambles and the dairy. Mr. Aiken of Carnbee had 

 some of the last winners, and Mr. Stocks of Be- 

 veridge has still a dairy of them near Kinghorn. As 

 a feeding county Fife stands very high, and pours 

 out its beef supplies from February to June, with 

 boundless plenty and precision. The Angus and 

 Galloway beasts were once termed its "spring 

 keepers," but the Shorthorns have gradually crept 

 in during the last twenty years, and their quick 

 feeding qualities have carried all before them. Its 

 farmers breed very few sheep and cattle. They go 

 to Melrose or St. Boswells for half and three-parts 

 bred, as well as a few Cheviot lambs to winter ; 

 but a good many cross-breds are bought at Glende- 



