London to John O' Groafs. 1 1 1 



duced new blood into his stock from flocks of the same 

 breed, but, by a virtually in-and-in process, he was able 

 to produce qualities till then unknown to the race, and 

 to make them permanent and distinctive properties. 

 Now this achievement in itself has an interest beyond 

 its utilitarian value to the agriculture world. To 



" Rejoice in the joy of well-created things " 

 is one of the best privileges and pleasures of a well- 

 constituted mind. But what higher honor can attach 

 to human science or industry than that of taking such 

 a visible and effective part in that creation ? in sending 

 out into the world successive generations of animal life, 

 bearing each, through future ages and distant countries, 

 the shaping impress of human fingers long since gone 

 back to their dust; features, forms, lines, curves, 

 qualities and characteristics which those fingers, working 

 as it were, on the right wrist of Divine Providence, 

 gave to the sheep and cattle upon a thousand hills, in 

 both hemispheres ? There are flocks and herds now 

 grazing upon the boundless prairies of America, the 

 vast plains of Australia, the steppes of Russia, as well 

 as on the smaller and greener pastures of England, 

 France and Germany, that bear these finger-marks of 

 Jonas Webb, as mindless but everlasting memories to 

 his worth. If the owners of these "well-created things" 

 value the joy and profit which they thus derive from 



