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observations on "these new-comers." He speaks 

 most cautiously, though, we may say, patronizingly of 

 them, but still he hardly sees why they should be 

 crossed, even for an experiment, with those cherished 

 lonks, the delight of his boyhood and the solace of 

 his old age, whose tap-root he considers as fixed in 

 the very dust of time. 



The change of scene has wrought wonders with 

 Frederick's Diadem and other breeding recusants, 

 and "The Royal" has also renewed his strength by 

 the side of the salmon-haunted Hodder. The beau- 

 tiful Emma, who completed in Ireland what Rosette 

 began, and brought home the Purcell Challenge Cup,* 

 has gone and left nothing behind her, save Duke of 

 Bowland, who was sold to the Duke of Buccleuch. 

 The day of the massive, staring-coloured Esther, whose 

 cushion would have served for a cushion-dance, is 

 ended. The Hero, a fine framed white bull, with hair 

 a trifle sharp, brought back first prize Royal honours 

 from Worcester, and the ever bonny and buxom 

 Rosette, whose life has been a chequered one between 

 fat and store shows, and whose loves with Royal But- 

 terfly have been unthrift ones, was still there in August 

 (1868) with two daughters and a grand -daughter at 

 her side. There too, in the Thorneyholme meadow, 



Colonel Towneley experienced in his new herd, as she flatly refused to 

 breed, and she was only 2 months 20 days above the age of the heifer 

 class at Smithfield. She was three weeks and four days on her Bir- 

 mingham, London, and Liverpool travels, and took the extra stock 

 prize for females at every place, and she was then sold by auction for 

 49/. TS. in Burnley. She went on to the weigh-bridge directly she was 

 jold, and had only lost i61bs., or just a pound per day since she 

 weighed out (2O23lbs.) at Islington, with Mr. Charles Howard and Mr. 

 Duckham as joint clerks of the scales. Culshaw might well quote this, 

 as showing the constitution of the Butterflies, and dwell with rapture on 

 "above a pack weight of good loose fat inside her," the fine blending 

 of fat and lean, and the weight of beef which was carried on that delicate 

 bone. 



* Col. Towneley gave another with the same title, which Mr. East- 

 wood won. 



