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Eoyal Cambridge 4th 40624, a home-bred Wild Eyes bull, from 

 Wild Maid, bought at Mr. Geo. Moore's sale for 450gs, Baron 

 Underley 37824, by 20th Duke of Oxford 28432, out of Baroness 

 Barbon, of Lord Fevet sham's Ballad Singer ttibe, and Wild Prince 

 15th 45807, a very fine Bright Eyes bull, had been purchased at 

 Lathom, and sold at the sale held a little over 12 months ago to Mr. 

 Preston-Holt. Previous to Wild Prince's purchase, Sir Brian 45596, 

 of the Castanet tribe, bred at West Dereham Abbey, had been used, 

 and conjointly with Lord Lathom's bull, Sir George 48724, by the 

 Warlaby Eastern Emperor, from Vain Desire, of the Georgie tribe 

 was in service ; and only a short time before our visit, Hans 

 Andersen 46470, had been hired from Lord Polwarth. 



We are shown over the herd by Mr. Geo. Bowstead, who since 

 the late Bailiff's somewhat sudden death has temporally taken the 

 management of the Home farm of 668 acres, and as arranged the 

 night previous, we are out with him at an early hour in the morning, 

 when we proceed direct to the Town-Head buildings, where two or 

 three young cows are suckling their calves, including Diamond 9th, 

 a grand-daughter of Diamond 5th, by Mr. John Lamb's well known 

 Ignoramus 28887, bought from Mr. J. M. Eichardson, she is a grand 

 massive shorthorn, and the dam of Diamond 13th, by Oxonian 48409, 

 an exceedingly pretty heifer, already known in the Show yard, and 

 intended for exhibition purposes during the coming season. Eed 

 Eose 23rd, one of Sir Brian's heifers, has a roan bull suckling her, 

 by Sir George, and the second cross of Booth is an improvement on 

 the first. We return through the grounds of the Hall, in which is 

 the well, connected with the traditionary legend of " The Luck," 

 which is to the effect that one of the domestics, in bygone days, on 

 going to draw water at the well, came suddenly upon a group of 

 fairies, disporting themselves on the green sward. In their hurried 

 departure, they left behind a glass goblet, one of them on returning 

 found it appropriated by the unexpected visitor, and seeing its 

 recovery hopeless, she flew away crying : 



" If that glass should break or fall, 



Farewell the luck of Eden Hall." 



