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Golden Leaf, one of the few daughters noticed belonging to Lord 

 President, is thought the best of the trio, while Golden Beam, and 

 Golden Link, seen behind the Manor House buildings promise well 

 for the future popularity of the tribe at their present abode. 



The only family that cannot be exactly termed fashionable are 

 the Maids, an old Yorkshire tribe tracing to Joan of Arc. an 

 excellent milker, giving twenty quarts daily for several months 

 after calving. Marchioness of Lome, a light roan, is an exceedingly 

 heavy fleshed daughter of Sir Wilfrid, while Maid Marianne is a 

 young cow of considerable style; each have brought a cow calf this 

 season, as well as a third sister, Maid of the Manor. 



CHAPTER VII. 



The KfHtix/t Jh'i'ds. Wroihtvm Hill Park. Banning, Preston 



H(tU. Walwingbury. Hadlow Place. Little Barton. Redlands. 



Tin' N/f.s.sr.r llcnh. H 'illinydon. Kinyston-by-the-Sea. Horsted. 



Warnham Court. Rowfant. Stamnierham. 



Passing through the Metropolis, our first halting place on the 

 London, Chatham and Dover, is Wrotham ; climbing a steep emi- 

 nence as the most direct way to Wrotham Hill Park, the residence 

 of Mr. Jonathan Rigg, we are not long in reaching it, and the 

 shorthorns at the Home farm are soon the object of our attention. 

 Many fashionable females have from time to time become Mr. Rigg's 

 property, and for a number of years, Twenty-sixth Duke of Oxford 

 ,'53708, pin chased for 700gs. at Berkbampstead in 1876, stood at the 

 head of the herd. At present, Siddington Kirklevington 43279, a 

 fine Bates-like bull, by Third Duke of Hillhurst 30975, from one of 

 the twin Siddingtons bought from their breeder, Mr. E. Bowly, by 

 Mr. J. W. Larking, for 600, and 540 gs. each when under twelve 

 months old. The Winsomes, and Waterloos, the two most 

 fashionable tribes at Wrotham, both came from the Conishead 



