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time ; and the noted Highland and Royal Show bull 

 Avondale (94,085), bred by Mr James M'William. 

 Dauntless, whose sire was Feudal Chief (51,251), 

 was acquired from the late Mr Maxtone Graham as a 

 three-year-old at the fall of 1889, He left a lot of 

 uniformly high-class females at Ballechin. While in 

 their prime his cows were admired for their noble 

 heads, good scale, and milking properties, Mr 

 Robertson sold the bull as a six-year-old to Mr 

 Duthie, and promptly regretted the transaction. 

 Dauntless passed his later years in the possession of 

 Mr Thomas Horsfall, Yorkshire, and there his groups 

 of young bulls proved remarkably successful for several 

 seasons. His sire, Feudal Chief, was not a favourite 

 with Mr Duthie, but Mr Cruickshank must have had 

 more than a sneaking regard for the " Chief." In his 

 old age Amos was discussing with " Colly nie " the 

 merits and pedigree of a certain bull, when the junior 

 remarked, " I see he has got the cross of Feudal 

 Chief," " Oh yes ! " responded the senior, " and he 

 is none the worse for that." Dauntless had some- 

 what plain, forward-staring horns, which he did not 

 transmit. He had a beautifully-moulded frame on 

 short legs, and always carried a thick, even, and 

 mellow covering of flesh, his hook bones being per- 

 fectly hid. Even as an old bull he had a wealth of 

 soft mossy hair, " Ballechin's " other special regret 

 was in selling Newton Stone as a two-year-old for 

 exportation to the Argentine, as that bull was to be 

 a superb breeder, In the Argentine his success as a 

 sire of male and female animals was unprecedented, 



