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has obtained a tribe of animals of hardy and robust 

 constitutions, of early maturity, well calculated to 

 improve the general stock of the country. 



It was to me a delight to see this, the greatest 

 herd of Shorthorns in the world, numbering animals 

 of apparently the highest perfection to which they 

 could attain under human treatment. What a court 

 and coterie of "princes," "dukes," "knights" and 

 " ladies " those stables contained creatures that would 

 not have dishonored higher names by wearing them ! 

 I was pleased to find that Eepublics and their less 

 pretentious titles were not excluded from the goodly 

 fellowship of this short-horned aristocracy. There was 

 one grand and noble bull called " President Lincoln," 

 not only, I fancy, out of respect to "Honest Old 

 Abe," but also in reference to the disposition and 

 capacities of the animal. Truly, if let loose in some of 

 our New England fields he would prove himself a 

 tremendous " rail-splitter." 



After spending a quiet sabbath with this old friend 

 and host at his farm-house at Sittyton, I took the 

 train for Edinburgh and had a week of the liveliest 

 enjoyment in that city, attending the meetings of the 

 Social Science Congress. There I saw and heard for 

 the first time tho venerable Lord Brougham, also men 

 and women of less reputation, but of equal heart and 



