64 SHORTHORNS 



Samples of Mr Douglas's artistic tastes can still be 

 seen in and about Athelstaneford Mains farmhouse. 

 The terraced frontage, sculptured flower-bowls at the 

 garden entrance, with the heads of Rose of Summer, 

 and Sir James the Rose, and other touches, reveal the 

 worshipper of beauty. The noble-looking head of the 

 famous bull is in stone also beneath the clock at the 

 steading archway, and the stuffed head of his dam 

 is aloft in the once neatly-decorated box where she 

 breathed deep content after tedious journeys. Mr 

 Douglas showed for the last time at the Stirling 

 Highland of 1864. At that show he sold six of his 

 best female animals to the Hon. David Christie, the 

 Canadian breeder. By degrees he disposed of all 

 his Shorthorns, and during the last few years of his 

 life he kept commercial stock. He died on 10th 

 February 1878. 



