108 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



farm at Studley, and selling off the whole of his herd, with the 

 exception of Isabella, by Pilot, retired to Sharrow, near Ripon. 

 After residing there for a year, which, from being bereft of his 

 favorites, he used to describe as the least happy period of his life, 

 Mr. R. Booth, in consequence of his father's death, succeeded to the 

 estate and Short-horn herd of Warlaby. The sale of the Studley 

 herd was a step which Mr. Booth always regretted, for many of the 

 animals it contained were, in his opinion, every whit as good as any 

 he afterwards bred. They were dispersed into many hands, and 

 though Old Cuddy's* assertion, that they have 'a' swealed away,' is 

 certainly too sweeping, it may be doubted whether, even in the hands 

 of very celebrated breeders, like Mr. Fawkes and others, the descend- 

 ants of these famous cattle have ever quite equaled their cousins at 

 Warlaby. 



" It is now necessary to go back a quarter of a century to resume 

 the history of 



THE KILLERBY HERD. 



"We have seen that in the year 1814, Mr. Richard Booth took 

 with him to Studley some of the animals then forming the Killerby 

 herd. Mr. Thomas Booth shortly afterwards supplied the place of 

 these with other cows, which became the foundresses of three famous 

 tribes the Farewell tribe, from which sprang Faith, Hope, and 

 Charity ; the Broughton tribe, from whence came Bliss, Blithe, and 

 Bonnet; and the Dairymaid, or Moss Rose tribe, from which are 

 descended Vivandiere, Camp Follower, and Soldier's Bride. The 

 first of the Farewell tribe came from Darlington; the first of the 

 Broughton tribe from a dairy farmer in a village of that name, who 

 had some good cattle, but, pedigrees being slightly valued in those 

 days by the tenant-farmer class, nothing further is known about them, f 

 The first of the Dairymaid tribe came from an equally good stock in 

 the village of Scorton. 



"In the year 1819, on the occasion of Mr. J. Booth's marriage, Mr. 

 T. Booth removed to Warlaby, giving up to his son, Mr. J. Booth, 

 the Killerby estate and a part of the Short-horn herd, and taking the 

 remainder with him. A portion of the Fairholme or Blossom tribe, 

 and of the Old Red Rose tribe, were removed to Warlaby, the 



* Mr. Booth's herdsman. L. F. A. 



t A fact like this may explain the want of pedigrees to the Kentucky importation of ShorJ- 

 horns to America in the year 1817, only three years later than 1814. L. F. A. 



