48 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



three fresh parts derived from Dalton Duke, which made up the 

 thirty-two. 



" Being thus very nearly own brother and sister, they were the joint 

 parents of the bull Favorite. That bull was next put to his own 

 mother Phoenix, so nearly related to him on his sire's side also ; and 

 the produce was Young Phoenix. To this heifer Favorite was once 

 more put, she being at once his daughter and more than own sister too. 

 For their two sires, Bolingbroke and Favorite, were not only as nearly 

 as possible consanguineous with each other, but also with the cow 

 Phoenix, to which they were both put. The result was Comet (155). 



" Nor was this all. The system was carried much further. The 

 celebrated Booth bull Albion (14) was not only a son of the in-and- 

 in Favorite bred Comet, but his dam was a granddaughter of Favorite 

 on both sides, and descended besides from both the sire and the dam 

 of Favorite. 



" It is not so possible to make an exact statement with regard to 

 Pilot (496), for it is not known whether he was by Major (398), or 

 Wellington (680). Nor does it much matter; for five-eighths of 

 Major's and three-quarters of Wellington's blood were derived from 

 Favorite, by repeated inter crossings ; and Pilot's dam was not only 

 by Favorite, but she was also the granddaughter of Foljambe, the sire 

 of both the parents of Favorite. 



"Marshal Beresford (415) was, like Albion, a son of Comet (155); 

 and his dam was by a grandson of Favorite, out of a daughter of 

 Favorite. 



" Suworrow (636) was by a son of Favorite ; and his dam was a 

 daughter of Favorite ; and Twin Brother to Ben (660) was from a 

 cow by Foljambe, the double grandsire of Favorite. 



" Even this does not exhaust the subject. Many of the above 

 mentioned animals were otherwise related to each other by a common 

 descent from Hubback, and from other progenitors. 



"Albion has been called 'The Alloy Bull.' I think with very little 

 reason. When it is remembered that he is the seventh in descent 

 from that blood, and that therefore only one part of his blood came 

 from 'The Alloy,'* against one hundred and twenty-seven parts which 

 were not derived from it, the chances against either good or evil 

 resulting therefrom were infinitesimally small ; and so no doubt such 

 an acute observer as Mr. Booth well knew." 



* Through Washington (674). These bulls will be more particularly noticed hereafter in our 

 remarks upon the Booth herds. L. F. A. 



