1 70 Saddle and Sirloin. 



umberland, was the only memento left. After that, 

 Mr. Wetherell formed no more herds, and wound up 

 by breeding two or three thoroughbred foals from a 

 Flying Dutchman mare. The neighbourhood was 

 not drained of prize shorthorns when the forty-eight 

 had gone. Mr. Wood of Stanwick, a close neighbour 

 of Mr. Wetherell's, won the first aged prize with Lord 

 Adolphus, against both Lord of the Harem and Prince 

 Frederick at Battersea in '62. Four years after, his 

 beautiful cow Corinne stood first at the Plymouth 

 Royal and the Yorkshire, and it was from heifers of 

 his breeding that Mr. Mitchell of Alloa bred some 

 Highland Society prize winners. 



" Nestor's" little home at Aldborough has many 

 a herd memento on its walls. There is the cow bred 

 by Mr. Thomas Booth, which he sold at two years 

 old to Mr. Carter of Theakstone, and then bought 

 back at beef price and put to Comus (1861). She had 

 three heifers, and Mr. Rennie, senior, of Phantassie, 

 bid him 500 guineas for them, and ended by buying 

 the oldest out of the pasture for 250 guineas. The 

 second went to Mr. Whitaker. Three roans are there 

 from Herring's hand, and painted in Memnon's year, 

 when he was a struggling coachman artist in Spring 

 Gardens, Doncaster. Comet (155) is said to be the 

 only one by Weaver in existence.* Mr. Wetherell 

 always thought Comet too long, but still a more 

 elegant bull than Duke of Northumberland, who 

 had also to struggle against rather upright shoulders. 

 Comet's kith and kin are there in St. John and Gaudy* 

 by Favourite, bred by Mason, who always loved good 

 hair. Still, perhaps one of the greatest triumphs is 

 the old sow of the Elemore, or rather the Bakewell 

 breed. She was one of a litter of eight sows and two 

 boars, and the former won the first prize in eight 

 successive years at CoKdilleras, near Richmond. 



" Bid me discourse" is an invitation Mr. Wetherell 

 never shrank from ; and, with the Brothers Colling, 



* These pictures are now in Mr. Thornton's office^ in London, 



