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heifers, out of which we select for notice, Woodbine 2nd, a pretty 

 red, with a particularly sweet head, the daughter of Baron Winsome 

 8th, and Woodbine, from Wood Nymph 3rd, bought at Wallington ; 

 another good daughter of the Winsome bull is Modi-sty, out of Rose 

 Cardigan, already noticed, then Lady Worcester Wild Eyes] 4th, a 

 wealthy fleshed, somewhat gaudy red and white, of the right sort, 

 despite the colour, and we may safely say that her owner will not 

 regret being the winner of the sharp contest at Cummersdale, when 

 he also bought her own sister, and their dam, Lady Worcester 

 Wild Eyes 2nd. Next morning we drive to Leegate, on the opposite 

 side of the Maryport and Carlisle, and here again we have some very 

 nice heifers, by Baron Winsome 8th ; Weston Belle 2nd, very evenly 

 covered with flesh, is perhaps the pick of the bunch, and Weston 

 Beauty 3rd, although pretty, is not the equal of the red, both descend 

 from the old Booth family of Alexina, with a considerable top 

 dressing of Bates. Blaithwaite Cowslip 3rd, and Lowther Cowslip 

 3rd, are from sisters, and the family is fast increasing in numbers, 

 from the cow bought at Lord Lonsdale's sale. And lastly we have 

 eleven in a field, the first pointed out is Princess Royal 5th, bought 

 as a yearling at Bray ton, then Lowther Cowslip, by Lord Bective's 

 Prince Saladin, the oldest of the three Cowslip sisters ; and in Weston 

 Beauty 2nd, we have the favourite of the owner, out of another trio 

 of sisters. Weston Belle, is neat, but a shade under sized, like what 

 we have here seen of the Kingscote Oxford bull's get, while Alice 

 Blanche, a daughter of Mr. Gr. Moore's Sweetheart bull, Lord 

 Radstock, is very short on the leg, and as a final termination of the 

 herd, we have Lady Cardigan. 



En route for Killhow, we pass through the village of Bolton 

 Gate, where the ancient Church, appertaining thereto, is said to 

 have been built in one night, by the imps of Michael Scott, the 

 Cumberland wizard, the ghostly masons in their huiry, having put 

 the steeple at the wrong end. In this fertile valley, Mr. S. P. 

 Foster continues the breeding of the herd of shorthorns, started by 

 his father, the late Mr. J. P. Foster, at the Babraham sale in 1863, 

 when Young Celia, and White Lily, were bought, Good cattle, 



