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fifteen years on her head, for nearly twice as many 

 pounds. He had rather a weary time of it getting her 

 across the Westmoreland moors, and the venture did 

 not look very hopeful, as her first calf " Wonders" 

 was a very bad one. Captain Shaftoe* had arrived 

 at Netherscales the same year, and the cherished 

 object appeared at last on September 4th, 1845, in the 

 shape of his daughter, Queen of Trumps. The old 

 cow was so weak after calving, that when Mr. Unthank 

 left her to fetch a drink, she fell sideways on to her 

 calf, and nothing but the greatest care and incessant 



* This bull's history was a less chequered one. Mr. Unthank had 

 become deeply smitten at Richmond with his short legs, rich quality, 

 and gay looks, when he was the first-prize yearling of the Yorkshire 

 Agricultural, against Belleville, Cramer, and Belted Will ; but there was 

 no little difficulty in persuading Mr. Lax to part with him for 200!. 

 The late Mr. Benn, always enthusiastic in the shorthorn cause, lent the 

 Lowther van, and as Mr. Unthank sold " The Captain" after a couple 

 of seasons for a loo/, advance to Mr. Loft, of Lincolnshire, his second 

 Richmond thoughts proved as good as his first. Mr. Parkinson, of 

 Leyfields, gave the last bid of 325 guineas for him at the Trusthorpe 

 sale, and won in the aged class with him at the Northampton Royal, the 

 same year that his half-brother, Baron Ravensworth, gained that honour 

 among the yearling bulls. After coming second to Mr. Bates's First 

 Duke of Oxford, at the Yorkshire show of that year, he changed hands 

 a fourth time, for 140 guineas, to Mr. Smith, of West Razen, who kept 

 him for five years, and then sold him to his brother, in whose hands he 

 died. He had a great propensity to fatten, and got his cows very good 

 and compact, but rather too small. Prince Imperial, a winner, and a 

 very neat little bull, with a good deal of his blood on both sides, was at 

 Netherscales on the day of our visit, fresh from beating the "swell 

 racing bull," Mr. Wetherell's Statesman, and a large field at Cold- 

 stream ; and Master Hopewell, who was quite a " silky laddie" in his 

 coat, and bred by Mr. Barnes, was in the stall which Booth's Benedict 

 and Freemason have both held in their day. Daphne Gwynne was also 

 there, and equal to upwards of 26 quarts a day in the height of the 

 grass ; but Valiant and Emily (the dam of the celebrated Emma) had 

 been sold to Colonel Towneley, Blue Bell to Mr. Douglas, and Em- 

 peror Napoleon to Sir Charles Tempest, and since then Mr. Unthank 

 has gone in steadily for Booth. On one occasion he all but " skinned 

 the lamb, " when the " Cumberland and Westmoreland" met at Appleby, 

 by taking nine animals, and getting eight firsts and one second ; and 

 the defeat of the prize heifer of this Society, and the Carlisle prize heifer 

 of the year as well, by Baroness Amelia, at Penrith, was his last achieve- 

 ment in the ring. 



