SHORTHORNS. Ill 



and permanent superiority. The Shorthorn has been called the 

 " Universal Intruder." Wherever Britons colonise, the Short- 

 horn makes its home ; and in many a distant land, where the 

 English tongue is comparatively unknown, its influence is 

 extending ; and the Shorthorn undoubtedly is the chief means 

 of transmitting, to other countries and other nations, that great 

 national institution " the Eoast Beef of Old England." 



