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We think he would surely have done so, if he had any faith in such 

 a process. 



Again : as to the real " improvement " claimed by Mr. Berry in 

 the best of the Colling blood. The year 1796 was the earliest date 

 in which Grandson of Bolingbroke had any produce (that being the 

 year in which Lady was born), and none of his blood could have 

 gone into any stock previous to that time, as the " Grandson " was 

 discarded after his service to Phoenix. We hear no more of his 

 produce afterwards. There was no public Herd Book then ; nothing 

 but Ceiling's own private record to show Lady's lineage ; nor, as we 

 shall soon show, did the public then, or even at the sale in 1810, 

 fourteen years afterwards, positively know the fact. These things all 

 put together fully prove, as we think, that Mr. Berry got up the story 

 of the Galloway bastard's pretended improvement to answer a purpose 

 of his own. 



Ceiling's best bulls were used in each cross on "Lady," and her 

 female produce, Countess and Laura, and their female progeny, so 

 that Youatt, in a foot note to Berry's exalted estimate of the good 

 quality of "Lady," remarks: "The dam of Lady was also the dam 

 of the bull Favorite; and as the Grandson of Bolingbroke is not 

 known to have been the sire of any other remarkably good animal, 

 it is most probable that the unquestionable merit of Lady and her 

 descendants is to be attributed more to her dam than to her sire." 



In the year 1810 Charles Colling made a public sale of his herd 

 and retired from breeding, having realized a fortune sufficiently ample 

 for the residue of his days. A more extended account of this sale 

 will be given in subsequent pages, as we wish now to follow the 

 "Alloy " blood until it passed out of- his hands. The account is taken 

 from the (English) Times, of Friday, October 19, 1810. The prices 

 and purchasers' names of the "Alloy," as reported at the sale, are 

 here quoted : 



Lady [by Grandson of Bolingbroke, one-eighth Galloway], 14 years 

 old, to C. Wright, Cleasby, Yorkshire, 206 guineas ($1,071). 



Countess [daughter of Lady, one-sixteenth Galloway], by Cupid, 

 to Major B. Rudd, 400 guineas ($2,080). 



Laura [daughter of Lady, one-sixteenth Galloway], by Favorite, 4 

 years old, to Mr. Grant, Lincolnshire, 210 guineas ($1,092). 



Selina [daughter of Countess above, and one-thirty-second part 

 Galloway], by Favorite, 5 years old, to Sir H. C. Ibbotson, Denton 

 Park, Yorkshire, 200 guineas ($1,040). 



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