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Shrops" are a new introduction, and at first only mus- 

 tered ten gimmers and a tup of Horton and Crane blood, 

 from the flock of Mr. Charles Holland, of Northwich. 

 Robert Parker, the ancient shepherd, who has been in 

 the Eastwood family since he was ten, has taken his 

 spud and spectacles, and sallied forth to make his 



and although his thighs had wasted a little, there was still the grand 

 framework, as we visited him at Towneley on his eleventh birthday. 

 He drew himself up as proudly as of old when Culshaw put his arm 

 round him and bestowed some of his wonted endearments upon his 

 cheek and forehead. His daughter Alice Wharfedale's Butterfly, a 

 light roan, was at his side, and so were his Royal Butterfly 2 1st from 

 Duchess of Lancaster 2nd, Young Butterfly 2nd from his own Young 

 Butterfly in short, quite a birthday party round him, with Culshaw as 

 M. C. He looked likely to live to the age of Usurer and Rockingham, 

 and Will Edmondson watches him with the most tender anxiety ; "just 

 one more calf from Alice Wharfedale, and then, poor old follow, he'll have 

 done his duty." When that comes, Will yearns for "just another," and 

 so it goes on. Alice Wharfedale was repurchased at Mr. Carr's Rugby 

 sale in calf of Alice Wharfedale 2nd. Frederick's box was not deserted, 

 and there sat Culshaw on the manger, with the last of the sort, Royal 

 Butterfly 22nd, performing a sort of figure-dance head and tail and legs 

 before him. His only judicial comment was on this wise, "it's just 

 their way the Butterflies were always dancing," and he seemed to live 

 the proud old days over again, and to long to be "up and at them" 

 once more on a Royal Monday. Especially stylish heads told of Baron 

 Oxford, and there he was on the old parade ground, a very handsome 

 bull to meet, with Baron Oxford's Beauty arid Baron Hubback, to mark 

 his first Towneley season. 



The Towneley herd is fast assuming its original dimensions, and 

 numbers between thirty and forty. The first purchase after the sale was 

 British Beauty, at Mr. Robinson's, of Clifton Pastures. . She is the dam 

 of Baron Oxford's Beauty by Baron Oxford, which took a first prize as 

 a yearling heifer in 1869 at the Manchester Royal and the Royal North 

 Lancashire shows, the only occasions on which she was exhibited. 

 Young Butterfly was bought back at an advance from the late Mr. 

 Crisp without her Baron Hopewell bull calf. Alice Wharfedale was 

 bought at Mr. Carr's Rugby sale, Royal Butterfly's Duchess at Mr. 

 Betts's, then three Duchesses of Lancaster at Mr. Bowstead's, Contord 

 at Mr. Adkins's, Baron Oxford with two Oxford heifers (from the 

 Windsor sale), and Wharfedale Butterfly and her calf Towneley Birter- 

 fly followed. The two last were bought at the late Mr. Packe's salt, the 

 cow at 1 10 guineas, or a 30 guineas advance on her Towneley sale 

 price, and the calf (bred by Mr. Packe) at 130 guineas. Alice Wb\rfe- 

 dale had four heifers and one bull, all singles, before she was six year* *ld. 



Duchess of Lancaster 6th was the first great disappointment \lat 



