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have generally doffed their titles with their discard- 

 ing of uniforms, but to the end Colonel Munro re- 

 mained " the Colonel," and no north-going company 

 from Central Scotland for the autumn Shorthorn 

 sales of ten to thirty years ago was reckoned to 

 be complete without him. 



A prominent prize-winner during the fifties and 

 sixties of last century was the fine Scottish gentle- 

 man, Viscount Strathallan. His select little herd 

 of blended Booth and Bates blood was sold off at 

 Stirling on 27th August 1867, with fair results, the 

 animals being shown in rather thin condition. For 

 28 head the average was 27 21 cows and heifers 

 averaging 40. Yiolante, a well-known Towneley- 

 bred red ten-year-old by Valiant (10,987), was taken 

 for Keir at 91 gs. ; Warlabina, a wide-ribbed six- 

 year-old roan by Hautboy (18,034), fell to Mr 

 Botcherby, Darlington, at 53 gs. ; the better-known 

 Rosa Bonheur, a roan five-year-old by Bridegroom 

 (17,441), passed to the Duke of Richmond at 74 gs. ; 

 her handsome two-year-old daughter, Rose of Strath- 

 allan, a roan by the Keir Allan (21,172), went to Mr 

 Currie of Halkerston at 86 gs. ; and Rosabel, a red- 

 and-white of the same age, and also by Allan, was 

 secured for Keir. 



But Mr Donald Fisher ! One could never term 

 him a person. He was a personality. The eldest 

 son of the proprietor of the Dunkeld Royal Hotel, 

 Mr Donald Fisher was intended for a commercial 

 life. He served his apprenticeship in the Bank of 

 Scotland, Dunkeld, and was for some time afterwards 



