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priced female sold at Mr. R. Booth's Studley sale in 1834, and was 

 the granddam of Mr. Storer's cow Princess Julia. From Anna, more 

 remotely through her daughter, Young Anna, are descended two of 

 Mr. Torr's families ; and from Agnes, daughter of Bright Eyes, came 

 Mr. Fawkes' Verbena and her descendants. Agamemnon, the own 

 brother of Ariadne, was a bull of extraordinary substance, with good 

 hind quarters, heavy flanks, deep twist, and well covered hips. He 

 was eventually sold, with two heifers, to Mr. White, of Woodlands, 

 near Dublin. Even in these early days Mr. Booth had bulls out on 

 hire. Alonzo (27), a son of Ariadne, by Rockingham (559), was let 

 to Mr. Hutton, of Marske, who, to promote the improvement of the 

 breed of cattle in his district, had at that time yearly shows on his 

 estate. Protector (1347), another bull of the Bright Eyes family, was 

 hired by Mr. Powlett, of Bolton Hall. He was a large, red bull, and 

 a capital sire. 



" In the first year of his residence at Studley, Mr. R. Booth bought 

 in Darlington market* the first of what was afterwards known as the 

 Isabella tribe. She was a roan cow, by Mr. Burrell's bull of Burdon 

 (1768), and, for a market cow, had a remarkably ample development 

 of the fore quarters. She was put to Agamemnon. The offspring 

 was 'White Cow,' which, crossed by Pilot, produced the matchless 

 Isabella, so long remembered in show-field annals, and to this day 

 quoted as a perfect specimen of her race. Pedestrians crossing the 

 fields to the ruins of Fountains Abbey might generally see her and 

 Anna, perhaps the two best cows of their day, with a blooming bevy 

 of fair heifers, attended by Young Albion (15); and many a traveler 

 lingered on his way to admire their buxom forms, picturing to himself 

 perhaps how the monks of the old abbey would have gloried in such 

 beeves." 



It was from this estate that the name of " Studley bull " was given 

 to the noble animal, calved in 1737, through whose loins a larger 

 number of the noted older Short-horns trace their lineage than to any 

 other. His Herd Book pedigree only states that he was " red and 

 white, bred by Mr. Sharter, of Chilton." In a note to that pedigree, 



* It is a pregnant fact, as the fashion of the day then was, before a Herd Book, recording the 

 pedigrees of Short-horns was established, or perhaps even thought of, and even to a much later 

 time, that the breeders and farmers of the Short-horn counties sent many of their valuable sur- 

 plus animals to the local fairs for sale. They had no written pedigrees, yet their breeders had 

 access to and used in their herds the pure bred bulls of leading breeders for some cattle genera- 

 tions back. They were Short-horns, to all intents and purposes, and probably as pure in blood 

 as any to be found. Not only the Booths, but other discriminating breeders purchased them, and 

 in their produce many noted animals have risen to well-merited distinction. L. F. A. 



