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fame, who won his first Royal prize at Leeds with 

 one of twin bulls ; and Stephenson, of Fourstones, a 

 " well kent" man on the border. There is quite an 

 excited buzz of conversation, as Booth's roan bull, 

 Commander-in-Chief, has just been led out of the 

 ring with only the second prize ribbons, while Knight 

 of Knowlrnere, who was second to him at Leicester, 

 takes the first. The decision falls upon the shorthorn 

 men like a rocket upon the Life Guards of King 

 Theodore, and they know not what to make of it. It 

 goes round that Jamie " shot him down" the moment 

 the roan entered the ring, and went stoutly for the 

 white. You hear the decision hotly discussed, not 

 only at the ring side, but by lovers of shorthorns of 

 both sexes, who sit hard by on inverted pails and 

 bundles o f hay. 



If Mr. Booth loses with Commander-in-Chief, there 

 is balm in Gilead with Lady Fragrant, a sweet cow 

 with a " picture head," as they phrase it, and his two 

 heifers, Lady Gaiety and Patricia, head the yearling 

 class. Neither of the pair had a chance with Lady 

 Fragrant for the Female Winner's Cup, and one walk 

 round the ring decides that Mr. Foljambe's bull-calf, 

 Knight of the Crescent, beats Knight of Knowlmere 

 and all his seniors when the males are on their trial. 

 The proud little red is hardJy in the ring an instant, and 

 Veni, vidi y vici is the word to-day. The last decision 

 is in the Extra Stock Classes, where a three-year-old 

 shorthorn ox has nothing to meet but Zelica, a little 

 half Brahmin cow. The first ribbons are handed to 

 the leader of the latter by mistake, but Mr. Charles 

 Howard dashes forward, with quite a melodramatic 

 start, and rescues them from such profanation. 



Mr. Borton has it all his own way in Leicesters. For 

 more than twenty years he has held his place as the 

 Yorkshire champion, and true to the county nomen 

 clature, Blair Athol is his great ram. Southdowns 

 do not take in Yorkshire, and as there was no entry, 



