posal, including articles by Hugh Watson 

 himself, William Watson, his son, and 

 an extended sketch by a daughter, as 

 well as the writings of McCombie, Mac- 

 donald and Sinclair and R. C. Auld. That 

 she was an animal of very superior form 

 and quality in her prime is undoubted. 

 Miss Watson writes of Old Grannie: 

 "She, herself, when she was 34, was 

 shown at Aberdeen as extra stock in 1858, 

 and created quite a sensation in the show 

 yard." The sensation, however, was no 

 doubt due to the remarkable age of the 

 cow herself. As she was the dam of over 

 two dozen prize-takers, she no doubt 

 had the essentials of a shapely cow of 

 quality. 



Aside from the breeding value of Old 

 Grannie two things occurred during her 

 life that add much interest to her career. 

 In 1859, two days before her death, at the 

 special request of Prince Albert, a pho- 

 tograph of her was taken, and in Octo- 

 ber, that year, was placed in the collec- 

 tion of cattle photographs in Balmoral 

 castle, the Scotch home of the queen. 



Another happy incident was the pre- 

 senting to James Thompson, the herds- 

 man who had attended Old Grannie all 

 her life, who had been in Mr. Watson's 

 employ for forty-two years, of a medal 

 and premium of 100 francs by the French 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals. This was in recognition of 

 the kindness which must have charac- 

 terized the care of the old matron dur- 

 ing the many years of her life at 

 Keillor. 



There must have been many a tug at 

 the heart strings when Old Grannie 

 passed away on that July 1, 1859. And, 

 as many an old granny leaves a vacan- 

 cy hard to fill in this world, so. must this 

 old dame have left at Keillor a place 

 none but she could occupy. Nor was 

 there another like her. at least in that 

 bonnie Scotland. 



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