Mr. Bruere s Herd. 1 8 1 



to 1824, when he was a school-lad at Ripon. Mr. 

 Richard Booth used to invite him and his two brothers 

 over to Studley, where those buxom matrons, the red 

 Anna and roan Isabella, stole his youthful heart. A 

 fine white bull, Young Albion (15), also held him in a 

 spell, and so completely deadened an early longing for 

 Australia, that he settled quietly down to farming at 

 Agglethorpe. He began a herd with Lily and Damsel, 

 half-sisters by Cleveland (3404), and Lily's dam and 

 Leaf, both by Burton 1(3250) a son of Comet (155), and 

 bred by Mr. Wyville,' of Burton Hall. He has gra- 

 dually formed six tribes from Kate, Damsel, Leaf, 

 Lily, Vesper, and Garnet, and distinguishes them re- 

 spectively in his nomenclature as " Sweets," " Roses," 

 " Leafs," " Flowers," " Stars," and " Precious Stones." 

 Chance, the first bull who came to Agglethorpe, 

 was succeeded by Shipton, from Mr. Edwards . of 

 Market Weighton. Shipton only got one heifer 

 (Strawberry) that has left any descendants in the 

 female line, and he went back to Lady Sarah, own 

 sister to Isabella by Pilot. He had also pretty nearly 

 made an end of Mr. Bruere, as he flung him on to 

 some lime-heaps in a lane ; and if his cloak had not 

 become unclasped and wound itself round his horns 

 for a few seconds, his victim could not have crept 

 through the hedge. This was our Braithwaite friend's 

 first and " positively last appearance" in the Spanish 

 matador line of business.* 



* After Rouge, Silky Laddie (which claimed descent from Mr. John 

 Ceiling's Rachel, eighteen of which averaged g2l. 6s. at his sale in '39), 

 and Sylvan King (half-brother to Silky Laddie), the pure Booth period 

 set in with King Arthur, half-brother to Venus de Medicis, who was 

 hired from the late Mr. John Booth for 100 guineas a year. Thirty-two 

 .calves, a moiety of them heifers, were the produce of the visit ; and, as 

 "he had gone home three months before his time, Prince George arrived 

 to finish out the two years, and never left Braithwaite except for the 

 block. Windsor was also kindly lent to Mr. Bruere by Mr. Richard 

 Booth, from May, '60, to February, '61, on his return from Mr. Carr's. 

 Thirteen cows and heifers held to this Royal white, who looked the 



