208 SHORTHORN HKIiDS OF KNULAXP. 



The Barringtons, have had a long ieis:n in their Warwickshire 

 home, Countess of Barrington 2nd. being purchased at the Holker 

 sale of 1864, for 135 guineas, re-sold seven years later for more 

 than her cost, price, and four of the fifteen females now trace to her, 

 while as the great merit of Duke of Barrington 10th not however 

 a lineal descendant of the original purchase as a sire, gives the 

 tribe a prominent position in the herd. Viscountess Barrington, 

 begotten at Brailes, where the dam sold in 1875 for 655gs.. to Lord 

 Skelsmerdale, was purchased at the Lathom sale in 1877. for 130gs., 

 and her son, Duke of Barrington 13th, after being originally sold for 

 the Weston Park herd, is now at Holker. Princess of Barrington 

 3rd, being a daughter of that grand old cow, Princess of Barrington, 

 sold to Mr. Hales, cannot well help being the fine looking animal 

 she is, especially when her sire is a Barrington, and son of Duke of 

 Hillurst 28401. Her daughter, Princess of Barrington 6th, by one 

 of the Princes of Brailes, is not nearly so much to our fancy as her 

 half sisier, Duchess of Barrington 5th, a wealthy good heifer. 

 Turning to the second branch, also from Holker, Countess of 

 Barrington 4th (from the same dam as Countess of Barrington 2nd), 

 having bred many sons, and only one heifer, on the shores oF 

 Morecambe Bay, was offered at the Holker sale of 1874, and 

 purchased for 300gs. Mr. Sheldon had the good fortune to obtain 

 a roan heifer calf, after sending her to Duke of Connaugbt 33604, 

 which he named Duchess of Barrington, and no\v one of his hand- 

 somest cows, is the dam of that magnificent bull, Duke of Barrington 

 10th, the sire of many a hero at Bingley Hall ; his curly forehead, 

 and massive frame, denote constitution sufficient to withstand the 

 keen winds, as he grazes upon the steep banks on the highest point 

 of Warwickshire. Duchesses of Barrington, Fourth, and Eighth, 

 are his half sisters, the former by Mr. Mclntosh's Prince of 

 Havering 5th 42203. and the latter by Lord Hindlip's Duke of 

 Cornwall 4th 47726. We imagine that we could have prevailed 

 upon the owner to part with one of the sisters, but our host readily 

 informs us such things cannot be. without opening the purse strings 

 very wide, and when he talks of hundreds for the vouno-er. it remind* 



