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Pie began by purchasing a couple of heifers at the Conishead Grange 

 sale of 1S7, and when Mr. W. Ashburner sold the larger portion of 

 his herd two years later, Lady Clato Bates, Barrington Lally 4th, 

 and Conishead Wild Eyes 3rd, came into the Esthwaite Vale. 

 A useful roan two year old, by Mr. Martin's Earl of Kirklevington 

 43168, from Lady Claio Bates, has the honour of the Lily Bells to 

 maintain ; Barrington Lally 4th, has proved a first rate dairy 

 animal, and her daughter, Claife Lally, promises to grow into a nice 

 cow; and Conishead Wild Eyes 3rd, before being sold to Mr. 

 Burnley, left a couple of heifers at Colthouse, named Esthwaite 

 Wild Eyes and Esthwaite Wild Eyes 2nd, the former, a neat level 

 roan, has bred a capital cow calf to Baron Newfield Winsome 47425, 

 a highly bred Winsome bull, purchased by Mr. Satterthwaite, from 

 Mr. L. H. Wraith, and a white Esthwaite Wild Eyes 5th from 

 the younger sister, also does credit to him as a sire, and its dam, a 

 robust massive young matron, is of the right class to withstand the 

 vigours of the climate, indeed there is considerable credit due to Mr. 

 Sat f erthwaite for his courage in selecting such highly bred females 

 to occupy his pastures, and not content with his previous purchases 

 he has bought Duchess of Warcop, of the fashionable Waterloo tribe, 

 and Lady Wild Eyes 10th, one of the purest of the many branches of 

 the family. 



Passing through the ancient market town of Hawkeshead 

 which like many another once important country town has suffered 

 from the absence of the "Iron Horse" the end of the first mile 

 brings us to a brook, near which at the angle where the Ambleside 

 and Coniston roads divide, a mullioned window in a portion of the 

 farm buildings, indicates that we are close to the site of the Hall, 

 but the present residence is quite of modern date. Mr. Martin, 

 the present occupier of the Hall, and the extensive holding belonging 

 to it, began breeding shorthorns in 1864, when on March 28th he 

 bought Jessy 31st, at the Stang Ends sale, she proved an excellent 

 breeder : and Gazelle 3rd, obtained at Siddington in 1872, was also 

 a fortunate purchase ; while additions were afterwards made of some 

 of the leading tribes. Before Mr. Martin's lemoval from Bardsea 



