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pick of four yearlings running in one of the paddocks behind the 

 Hall. Polyxena, a third daughter of Pales, but by Royal Stuart, is 

 a beautiful fronted young cow, unfortunately not in a breeding state. 



At the sale of Mr. Eutson, of Newby Wiske, in the spring of 

 1868, Shepheidess, by Stonegrave 27575, was bought, and from her 

 three daughters. Serenity, Simplicity, and Simpleness, all the offsprings 

 of Warlaby bulls, the tribe has sub-divided itself into three branches, 

 the last named is most numeious, and possesses three good sisters in 

 the number. Sprightliness 1st, a wealthy red and white, by Windsor 

 Benedict, is the best of the heifers first seen at Westfield, Sprightliness 

 2nd, her own sister, is a lengthy heifer, with neat well laid shoulders, 

 and a very broad good chest, and the youngest of the three, by Mark 

 Tapley, is also much admired. Serenity 1st, an Heir-at-Law cow, is 

 the oldest of another branch, her daughter No. 2, by Mr. Crosbie's 

 bull, but three years old last February has two daughters to her credit, 

 and is again heavy in-calf. The roan Simplicity 7th, is the sole 

 representative of Shepherdess's daughter, Simplicity. 



The last, of the families at Bolton Hall are the Eose of Wensleys. 

 tracing to Young Wildair by Wonderful 700, the dam of Wild 

 Eyes, whose descendants have reached such high prices, another 

 daughter Fidget, by Mr. Eowlandson's Newton 4567, proved the 

 starting point of the Eose of Wensleys, and Eose of the Hills, by Mr. T. 

 C. Booth's Manfred, had Eose of Wensley, to Heir-at-Law, a straight 

 good cow, the mother of No's 1, 2, and 3; Lothian Fitz Halnaby, 

 the sire of the oldest, was by Eoyal Halnaby, from a Medora cow, 

 bied at Artfert, he was the predecessor of Mark Tapley, now at 

 Bolton Hall, a roan, by Eoyal Mowbray, out of Madeline, of the 

 Aylesby " M " tribe, he is a bull of good substance, and was 

 purchased at one of the Bally waiter October sales. We learn that 

 Nonesuch 51790, a very handsome son of King of Trumps, and 

 Dame Mischief, of Mr. Carr's branch of the Farewell tribe, has been 

 since purchased for the herd. 



If a man is to be judged in breeding pure bred stock by his 

 ultimate success, then amongst that large body of tenant farmers, 

 the very backbone of old England, there is no one who has been 



