CHAPTER XIII. 



The Vienna Exhibition of 1873— A Sturdy English Watch— The 

 Emperor admires my Bull — A Contrast in Costume — The Paris 

 Exhibition of 1878 — Four-horned Sheep — Rosa Bonheur visits 

 the Cattle — Foot-and-Mouth Disease — The Projected Palestine 

 Canal — The Times condemns it — Its Route, its Cost, its 

 Future. 



To myself some of the most pleasant recollections of 

 my life relate to my official connection with the Vienna 

 Exhibition of 1873, and the Paris Exhibition of 1878. 

 I had offered to assist in getting up a representative 

 section of English live stock in connection with the 

 " Welt-Ausstellung" at Vienna, and Mr. Philip (now Sir 

 Philip) Cunliffe Owen accepted my assistance. With 

 the exception of cattle, we obtained an excellent entry. 

 The cattle entry consisted entirely of shorthorns ; I 

 entered a young bull, " Royal Geneva," one year and 

 ten months old, and his own brother and a red heifer of 

 the Bates ''Secrecy" tribe; but our most distinguished 

 breeders were deterred by the distance and the dread 

 of cattle disease. We secured an excellent exhibit of 

 sheep and pigs : Mr. Treadwell sent sheep of his 

 Oxfordshire Down breed, and some Berkshire pigs 

 of the small white variety ; Lord Chesham his splendid 

 Shropshire Downs, R. Russell his Kentish, W. Dudding 



