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chanan Castle; the Perthshire Hills and Ben 

 Lomond rise in the distance; and Loch Lomond 

 and Loch Katrine are not far away. But we care 

 for none of these things, and only long for an ' ' in- 

 terior/' such as John Taylor has to show, as he 

 throws back the door of the boxes in turn, and un- 

 veils New Year's Morn. She seemed as jealous of 

 her calf as a cow well may be, when she has bred a 

 Royal winner. Hers and Flavians are the tribes of 

 the herd ; and Rosy Morn and her bull calf, May 

 Morn, and Morning Star, range themselves under 

 the one, and Flower Girl and Baroness Killerby 

 under the other ; while Rosedale and La Valliere are 

 the outsiders. Fashion by Baron Killerby from Flavia 

 had just been sold to Mr. John M'Kessack ; and as 

 only two bull-calves arrived last year, there were, in- 

 cluding calves, only fourteen in all. 



Rosy Morn by Victor Royal (21028) stood next to her 

 dam, and had a good Fashion bull-calf; and then came 

 Flower Girl, the first-prize heifer at Warwick, with 

 her second calf at her foot, and not very much milk 

 for it. She has held herself together very fairly, but 

 her look is rather spoilt by the small horns, which 

 she inherits from her gran dam. Baroness Killerby 

 has the same peculiarity, and, like the other three, she 

 is full of rich hair, but her roan Fashion calf is dead. 

 The same ill luck had befallen Rosedale, whose bull- 

 calf died suddenly at the end of twelve weeks. She 

 herself did Taylor a world of credit for the careful 

 way in which he had reduced her, and she looked all 



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