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CHAPTER XIX. 



ANTHONY CRUICKSHANK THE GREATEST HERD OF SHORT-HORNS IX 

 THE WORLD RETURN TO LONDON AND TERMINATION OF MY TOUR. 



SITTYTON designates hardly a village in Aberdeen- 

 shire, but it has become a point of great interest to 

 the agricultural world a second Babraham. In this 

 quiet, rural district, Anthony Cruickshank, a quiet, 

 modest, meek- voiced member of the Society of Friends, 

 " generally called Quakers," has made a history and a 

 great enterprise of vast value to the world. He is one 

 of those four-handed but one-minded men who, with a 

 pair to each, build up simultaneously two great busi- 

 nesses so symmetrically that you would think they gave 

 their whole intellect, will and genius to one. Anthony 

 Cruickshank, the Quaker of Sittyton, has made but little 

 more noise in the world than Nature makes in building 

 up some of her great and beautiful structures. His 

 footsteps were so light and gentle that few knew that 

 he was running at all, until they saw him lead the 

 racers by a head at the end of the course. The world 

 is wide, and dews of every temperature fall upon its 

 meadow and pasture lands. Vast regions are fresh and 



