450 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



the west, with Royal ribbons flying and the Wiltons 

 at their head. The importation was landed at Port- 

 land and quarantined on H. C. Burleigh's farm. 



Sir Bartle Frere and Romeo. First in the list 

 was the flash yearling, Sir Bartle Frere 6419, first 

 at the Royal show of 1881, for which Carwardine 

 was paid $3,000, the record price for a Hereford bull 

 in England up to that date. He was born on the 

 Fourth of July, 1880, possibly predestined from the 

 beginning to head this triumphal array of Eng- 

 land's best to "the land of the free." By another 

 strange freak of fortune on the very same American 

 national holiday another of Mr. Carwardine 's cows, 

 Rosaline, by DeCote, had given birth to the bull 

 Romeo 6420, which also gained great honor and was 

 bought by Mr. Clark to stand at Sir Bartle 's side in 

 the great days that followed at Shadeland. 



4 * Bartle, " as he was always known in stable par- 

 lance, was every inch the show bull, having had the 

 rare distinction before importation of being the 

 " runner-up " to his own sire at Tredegar show in a 

 class open to all breeds, Lord Wilton being nine 

 years old at the time. He had the forward finish 

 and grace that commonly went with the Wilton 

 blood, a wide loin, long quarters, good cover of flesh 

 evenly disposed, neat bone, and the bearing on pa- 

 rade that ever appeals to the galleries. If he was 

 of the ' ' matinee idol ' ' type, Romeo, his half-brother 

 and companion in this trans-Atlantic pilgrimage, 

 furnished an admirable "foil," for he was a sure- 

 enough "feeder's delight" low of leg, short of 



