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season, but the Nineteenth, a u double" Pauline, having newly calved, 

 both were withdrawn, and now the tribe can flourish again on the 

 Broughton pastures, it would have been almost a pity to lose the 

 connection, as Pauline, bred at Killerby, was sold to the late Mr. Carr, 

 who passed the tribe to Branches Park, from whence it came to 

 Broughton many years ago. The 'Madelines spring from Alice 

 Butterfly, bought at Townley in 1864, and the females sold in 1876, 

 made the excellent average of <261 9s., Mrs. Pery purchasing Blithe 

 Butterfly for 360gs. ; her daughter, Blooming Butterfly, eventually 

 passed over to Ireland, and when Dame Madeline, was sent over to 

 Prinknash for sale, Mr. How took the first opportunity of returning to 

 his old love, and certainly Broughton Madeline, sired by Royal Studley 

 45548, is an exquisitely pretty yearling, and of this family, let it not be 

 forgotten, Windsor Butterfly was bred nearly twenty years ago. 

 Water Nymph 14th, tracing to Hecate, bred by the late Mr. John 

 Booth, is the companion of Broughton Madeline, and in her, centre 

 the sole hopes of the family, known as Water Nymphs, since the 

 days they left the banks of the Kibble. The Lancasters, a favourite 

 tribe of the late Mr. Wilkinson, of Lenton, were in Mr. How's 

 possession previous to 1876, and a couple of months before his 

 last sale, Mr. J. C. Toppin's herd coming in the market, he repurchased 

 Lily, sold at his first sale, and Lancaster Belle, a pair of large 

 framed useful dairy cattle, the latter being by Mr. Downing's 

 Norman Fame 34922. Welcome Marie represents a good milking 

 heavy fleshed sort, known as the Welcomes, and tracing to a cow 

 named Welcome Mary, possessing only a short pedigree, but with 

 three of the late Mr. E. Booth's best bulls contained in it. 



An eight miles drive from Broughton brings us to the county 

 town, a dozen miles on the Kettering and Cambridge line finds us at 

 Kimbolton, and between two and three more we are in the Park 

 belonging to His Grace the Duke of Manchester, examining the first 

 portion of the herd. Shorthorns have been connected with 

 Kimbolton since 1849, animals being purchased from Mr. Beauford 

 and Mr. Ladds. Fashion began to assert itself about twenty years 

 later, when Wild Eyes Duke 36007, was bought at Winterfold, and 



