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secured an exceedingly pretty yearling of the same 

 line by Tom Bowling (97,441), at 210 gs. For the 

 handsome red Missie bull Golden Favourite (98,960), 

 the Duke of Portland's agent paid 210 gs., and Mr 

 J. D. Fletcher went to 190 gs. for a very good-looking 

 red yearling, son of the 280-gs. cow. Mr Charles 

 E. Law had probably the best of the bull calves in 

 a red by Golden Favourite, out of an Emmeline cow 

 by Newton Stone. 



When in his prime Mr Robertson was a finely built 

 man. He had an expressive countenance, artistic 

 tastes, and a charm all his own as a host, but at 

 odd times in his later years he was prone to pass 

 into the deeps of thinking, and so to lose temporarily 

 the surface thread. 



