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herself, may fairly be entitled to the rank of Boyal Princesses in the 

 shorthorn world, and right well do they faithfully carry out their 

 role, though the calf from Duchess of York, is perhaps more beautiful 

 to the eye, yet in future years will not have that large deep frame, 

 possessed by the two daughters of Duke of Connaught; their own 

 brother, 9th Duke of York, comes marching gaily along on the green 

 turf for inspection, as if cognizant of the fact that he is considered 

 by many breeders one of the handsomest Bates young bulls of the 

 present day, it would indeed be difficult to find a more promising 

 male of the famous tribe, and it is to be hoped he will reign long, 

 and successfully at Duncornbe Park. On returning to the pasture, 

 we are shown on a visit to him, a couple of Grand Duchesses, and 

 an TJnderley Darling, from Underley ; a Duchess of Ormskirk, from 

 Lathoin ; and a Winsome, and an Oxford from liolker ; so with this 

 bevy of visitors, great things are evidently expected of the young 

 Duke, and in the same field four home-bred cows are also 

 seen, Belle of Eyedale 7th, a nice cow of the Ballad Singer family, 

 Lady Cleveland 6th, of another old Duncoinbe tribe tracing to 

 Sunbeam, by "Old Anna's" favourite, Young Grazier 3928, and 

 Wild Winsome llth, a somewhat gaudy, but wealthy daughter of 

 Grand Duke 31st. In the boxes, is a very lengthy red and white 

 heifer out of the last mentioned AVmsome, the " Wild Winsome " 

 having been changed to Winifrid, but the number is gone on with 

 in the calf of old Wild Winsome, one of Duke of Oxford 20th 

 daughters, and the last animal seen of the Duncombe Park herd. 

 Corniche, Carnille Amelie, and an own sister to the latter, the last 

 of Baron Oxford 9th's calves, are all of the Chaff tribe, and Pride of 

 Kirklevington 2nd, with an exquisite soft and pliant touch, is also 

 under the twelve months. 



Prom Duncombe we drive across to Highfield House, where Mr. 

 T. Stamper, more noted for his Leicesters than his shorthorns, has 

 bred a few of the latter since the purchase of Cygnet, at Mr. Godfrey 

 Wentworth's sale at Wooley Park, Wakefield, about 1859 ; her first 

 calf, Chance, born when the dam was not twenty months old, proved 



