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jackets, with charming^ head-dresses, scarlet stockings, 

 black shoes and steel buckles. It was amusing to see 

 these young women literally with one hand " taking the 

 bull by the horns," and with the other holding a short 

 cord from his nostrils, leading him out and walking him 

 round the ring with as much ease as our own men could 

 with assistance of stick and ring. Here also were 

 Austrians and Hungarians in even more brilliant garb ; 

 Swiss peasants with their wives tending their silver-grey 

 cattle — cattle so good in quality and appearance, that 

 Mr. Robert Russell, of Kentish renown, bought several, 

 and brought them home to England. Sclavonians 

 there were, Galicians, Italians, Bohemians, and many 

 from Eastern countries bordering on Turkey, Russians 

 of unmistakeable Tartar physiognomy, all in their native 

 dresses, and forming an ethnological group of rare 

 interest to any student of Nature's races. I could 

 not help contrasting the untidy, rough, and slovenly 

 appearance of our cattle-men and shepherds with the 

 smartness and picturesque appearance of their con- 

 tinental brethren. The usual fustian jacket, corduroy 

 trousers, billycock hat, and sometimes a smart but not 

 over clean smock frock, could not have impressed the 

 foreigners with a sense of the boasted superiority of our 

 race. 



Some excellent specimens of Austrian cattle were 

 shown, many of the native breeds being sensibly im- 

 proved by judicious crossing with our best strains, and 

 the pure shorthorns belonging to the Archduke Albrecht, 

 sprung directly from our Queen's Knightley and Booth 

 herd, were wonderfully good ; indeed the Archduke's 



