Mr. Eastwood's Herd. 339 



panion brought him up with, " Well, my lord, how 

 much for the whole of them f" he only laughed, and said, 

 "/ knew what y oud be at in a minute or two : you'll 

 not have them" Mr. Eastwood had been to Killerby 

 from the very first, and his next step on getting But- 

 tercup home was to hire its red Jeweller, a son of 



degree. He was the first bull bred at Towneley, and Butterfly the 

 first female, with the exception of Frederick's sister, the freemartin. 

 Frederick by Lax's Duke, and Butterfly by Booth's Jeweller, were out 

 of Bessy and Buttercup, both daughters of Barmpton Rose. Frederick 

 came home a perfect ruin at three years old. He had been on the 

 Bowland Moors. Mr. Eastwood saw his rare roan heifers at rent day, 

 and asked his price. The farmer said 8/. ios., the same price as Hub- 

 back, and Mr. Eastwood gave him a ten pound note. He was calved 

 on the 5th of February, 1849, and Master Butterfly was one of the first 

 calves he got when he came to Towneley in '52. He was rather high- 

 mettled and treacherous at times. He once regularly setatCulshaw,who 

 made a masterly retreat over the side of the box. 



Barmpton Rose was beautifully filled up behind the elbow, and Cul- 

 shaw, who was then a lad, was quite "lifted up" when Tom Mason 

 first brought her home to Sir Charles Tempest's from the Walkeringham 

 sale. Her first calf was a white bull ; then she had a red heifer calf to 

 Mehemet Ali : she was a smart one, but she died at six weeks. Barmp- 

 ton Rose had head to spare to look at anything, deep and with fine 

 arched ribs, back if anything a little up, and a great milker she was a 

 good strawberry roan, not much bigger than Buttercup. Bessy was 

 smaller, and on a short leg, and much below the average for height. 

 She had such ribs and such a bag and head ! Princess Royal was more 

 of the style of her dam, and very gay. Buttercup was a sort of yellow 

 red, and like Hubback in her flecks. Briseis was another daughter of 

 Barmpton Rose. The late William Smith had her, and Christmas 

 Rose and Rosa sprang from her. 



Norwich, in 1849, was the first Royal Show we visited. We took 

 Beauty and Surmise there ; one was the second yearling heifer, and 

 Surmise highly commended. Beauty was second again at the York- 

 shire, when the Duke of Lancaster was the first bull calf, and Ruby the 

 first heifer. Beauty the dam of Beauty's Butterfly, was a thick, heavy 

 fleshed one, with a splendid head and bosom and shoulders ; she held 

 her head well up and had thighs like The Royal ; she hadn't the thickest 

 of loins, and her offal might have been finer. She was the heaviest 

 and biggest framed cow we had, but she had not Butterfly's length. 

 Alice had a pleasant head, and " cheerful 'ticing looks" enough to fill 

 any one with admiration at once. She wanted perhaps a little width of 

 breast ; her hips were beautifully covered, and her underline so perfect. 

 She was a light roan, with a little on the neck and ears, of more than 

 the average size, but half a size less than Butterfly a great lady with 



Z 2 



