Mr. Eastwood's Herd. 337 



" Well, my lord, that's hardly a fair question" was the 

 rejoinder ; " but if you like, as I'm pretty certain we're 

 both after the same two cows, we'll each write their 

 names on a slip of paper'' And write them they did, 

 and both wrote "Buttercup" and " Princess Royal" and 

 it was settled that his lordship would not oppose 



was much more demonstrative than when we found him some years 

 after in front of the eland's cage at Smithfield, and deciding, after a 



S-otracted survey, that such beef regenerators are "not for Joseph." 

 n this occasion he was very calm until Barmpton's Butterfly came 

 out, and when he advanced and patted her head all knew that a rally 

 was nigh. Flesh, hair, and fore- quarters were "all there," and so 

 was Mr. Eastwood when he came up under the sale waggon to give 

 battle for this fine combination of Royal Butterfly and " Dick." The 

 fight was short and sharp. " tfs against you at 300, Mr. Eastwood," 

 "and ten," "against you again," "and fifty," and Thorneyholme 

 was her destiny. Mr. Young, who was on the look out for Forth's 

 successor at Keir, took Royal Butterfly nth at 400 guineas, and at 

 Newcastle that very summer he avenged himself on The Hero for his 

 Worcester defeat. 



The results of a day which will be a red letter one as long as 

 Englishmen love shorthorns, may be summed up in 71897. 7.$-., or a 

 total average of I28/. Is. >]\d. for 56. On reference back, we find 

 that Robert Colling has an average of I28/. 14^. \Q\d. for 61 ; while 

 Charles Colling, thanks to Comet, has 15 1/. $s. 5^d. for 47. It 

 nust also be remembered that eighteen of the Towneley lots were 

 onder a year, and seven born within the year. The Willis's Room 

 Sale, when 17 averaged 4817. 3.?., hardly comes into the sale category, 

 except merely by way of comparison with the average made by Sfee 

 Duchess blood on the two previous occasions of its being put up, viz., 

 Ii6/. 5.?. for 14, at Kirklevington, and 4427. is. for 10, at TJortworth. 

 Taking the greater sales in order since Lord Ducie's, they stand thus : 



