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And when the Short-lioi-n calved in ^lay, 



Of" corn and " cake " she got a skinl'ul — 

 But may I never sin, if she 

 Gave at milking half a tinfnl. 



Och I ■\virrastru ! my Drimindliu ! 

 You needed neither " cake " nor corn — 

 On just dry hay three times a day, 

 You gave a canful night and morn. 



Kitty is greatly mortified, as the neighbors passing ask — " Ts 

 there no more churnin' ? " and her thoughts turn to her Drim- 

 indhu, who, with only " a taste of hay three times a day," gave 

 " galore of butter." Pat tries to pacify her by giving the aris 

 tocratic pedigree of the Short-horn : — 



Says Pat to me, " Och, gramachree. 



Her ' pedigree ' shows dukes in dozens; 

 ' The Royal Dane,' and ' Lady Jane,' 



And ' The Sultan,' too, are all her cousins." 

 Och ! wirrastru ! my Drimindliu ! 

 Such nonsense puts me past my patience ; 

 ]\Iy darlin' cow, 1 miss you now. 

 Although you had no grand relations. 



My curse upon them, night and day, 



And may their grief be great as mine is, 

 That first brought o'er to Erin's shore 



Those Short-horn cows and Cochin-Chinas. 

 Och ! wirrastru ! my Drimindliu ! 

 From shady Barrow's banks 1 brought her; 

 And oft I dream of that fair stream, 

 And her eyes, placid as its water. 



Mr. Austin exhibited with the Kerries a heifer bred in the 

 island of Unst, the nortliernmost of the Shetland group. She 

 was brought over with the first importation of Kerries — is of a 

 silver-dun color with a coat of hair resembling soft wool. She 

 makes an interesting contrast with the Kerries, differing from 

 them strikingly, both in color and shape, being deeper in tlie 

 fore-quarter and ilatter in the rib than they. She has 

 become excessively fat on grass, and her flesh is laid very 

 evenly over the body. This heifer is in calf to the Kerry bull. 

 Mountaineer. 



We should not omit to mention that Mr. Austin exhibited 

 also a fine cow, which is a cross of the Jersey and Ayrshire, 

 and a heifer two years and three months old, from this cow, by 

 a Jersey bull, with her calf. They are very fine animals. The 

 heifer is unusually promising for the dairy — giving, at the time 

 of the exhibition, as stated, fifteen quarts of milk a day. 



