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Scottish borderer, (indeed, if report be true, the origi 

 nal and identical Dandy Dinmont,) who, after admir 

 ing-, with a considerable spice of national pique, a very 

 fine short-horn bull, demanded anxiously to see the 

 dam. The cow having been accordingly produced, 

 and having undergone a regular survey, Dandy voci- 

 ferated, w ith characteristic pith, * / think naething o 

 your bull now, wt sic a caumb ;' and, unquestionably, 

 the mould or ' caumb' must have its own share in pro- 

 ducing shapes, though in his haste to detract, (as he 

 thought,) from the merits of the bull, poor Dandy totally 

 overlooked the additional compliment paid to the judg- 

 ment of the * Southron: '* 



It is in general supposed, that if the female be 

 by descent small, that the length of the legs of 

 the issue will not be influenced by the male. The 

 weight of the carcass is a good deal affected by the 

 male, but not so much as by the female. The im- 

 pressions of one or other, especially of the male, do 

 not cease on the birth of the fruits of a connection, 

 for though he may have no further meeting with that 

 female, yet are the succeeding offspring tinged with 

 his peculiar colour, or modelled after his form. This 

 is well illustrated by a fact which came under the notice 

 of the Earl of Morton. His lordship bred from a male 

 quagga and a mare of seven-eights Arabian blood, a 

 female hybrid, displaying in form and colour her mixed 

 origin. The mare was then given to Sir Gore Ouseley, 

 who bred from her first a filly and afterwards a colt, by 

 a fine black Arabian horse, but both these, in their 

 colour and in the hair of their manes, strongly resem- 

 bled the quagga. This isolated fact would be, however, 



