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Stuart. Merry Spring, from Merry Christmas, is of larger scale 

 than Merry Moonlight, a level topped young cow out of Merry 

 Sunshine, Merry Christ mae'a daughter, and own sister to the heavy 

 fleshed Merry Morn. Eliza, by the Hecuba bull Prince of Britain, 

 is a straight good heifer, full of hair, out of Emma, also in the 

 herd, bought at Mr. Linton's sale. Reigning Baauty, a good fronted 

 cow, by King Richard 2nd, has a nice roan cow calf by King of 

 Trumps. Then we have three heifers under the twelve months, all 

 by Hecuba bulls, and we single out Repartee, from Regina, as a 

 heifer of great promise. Lady Greraldine 3rd, was bred by Mr. 

 Ackers, and has the advantage of the Lord Prinknash 2nd cross on 

 a Killerby bred cow sold to Mr. Ackers, along with her is Trinket, 

 a big well shaped roan, by Heart of Oak, and we must not omit 

 Queen Bae, and Queen of Scots, two of the very first cows seen, 

 and by no msans the worst looking but unfortunately hardly in a 

 breeding state. 



From Killerby, the train is taken to Richmond, and in the 

 midst of a snowstorm we arrive at Hirtforth, another of the homes 

 of ancient shorthorns, rendered memorable by the name of the late 

 Col. Cradock's Old Cherry, to whose son Mussulman 4525, Mr. 

 Richard Booth sent Bracelet, the produce being the celebrated 

 Buckingham, to whom the length of quarter that distinguished the 

 Warlaby cattle was said to be due. In 1843, that excallent judge, 

 Mr. Unthank hearing that Old Cherry was tied up to feed, at once 

 set out for Yorkshire, and bought her when fifteen years old. She 

 was walked across the moor?, and bred Mr. Unthank two calves, one 

 Queen of Trumps, by the Cressida bull, Captain Shafto 6833, had 

 2nd Queen of Trumps, who in Mr. Douglas' hands bred 3rd Queen 

 of Trumps, winner as a two year old of the three Royal l^tional 

 prizes at Chester, Aberdeen, and Londonderry in 1858, afterwards 

 she was sold for 450gs. and died within sight of the American 

 continent. 



Mr. Christopher Cradock is the present owner of the Hartforth 

 estate and herd, to which he succeeded in 1852, on the death of his 

 father. It is not till the following morning we turn out, and in the 



