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CHAPTER IV. 



Cumberland Herds. The Oak*. - Wamhde Hall. Blackhow. St. 

 Bees Abbey. Preston Hows. Crosby, Me reside. The Tarns. 

 Brayton. BJaithwaite. Killhow. Cummersdale. Scale-by Castle. 

 The Nook. Armat-hwaite. Cahhwaite Hall. CfUthwaite House. 

 e Hall. Carleton Hill. Imjlewood Bank. Eden Hall. 



The merry season of Xmas having intervened, and rendered a 

 halt necessary in our wanderings, it is thus early in the new year 

 before we approach the Cumbrian herds, by crossing the River 

 Duddon from North Lancashire, and thus catching a brief glance of 

 the lovely valley, so called from the River. At the very first station 

 in the County we alight, and The Oaks, Mr. T. Barlow- 

 Massick's pretty residence, is only a mile distant, situate almost at 

 the foot of Black Combe, where a small select herd, mainly com- 

 posed of the Cressida tribe, so famous in the locality, when in the 

 ownership of Dr. Dickinson is located. Mr. Barlow-Massicks 

 dispersed his first collection in 1880, and it was not until three years 

 later when at the Holker sale, that he renewed acquaintance with 

 his " old love," by buying three cows and three calves, of the Cressida 

 tribe, and a white Baron Oxford calf to mate them with. 



Lady Cressida, now in her fourteenth year, a handsome large 

 framed cow, is still the head of the family. It was this tribe which 

 in Dr. Dickinson's hands produced Priam, used on the Oxfords at 

 Holker, and Andromache, the dam of Lady Cressida, was sold at the 

 dispersion of the late Doctor's herd to Mr. E. J. Schollick, at whose 

 sale she fell to Mr. J. P. Fostei's bid, and put to Duke of Oxford 

 17th, who was a son of the Oxford cow by Priam, bred Lady Cressida, 

 and at Killhow, Mr. Drewry purchased this cow, and her daughter, 

 Lady Chisholm ; and when the entire family were brought into the 

 ring at Holker, they were much admired, for their uniformity of 



