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posed to Robert Colling to buy the bull together, and on Good 

 Friday, 178:^, the two went to Haughton Hill, and asked a price of 

 Fawcett for him, and ten guineas were asked. They bid him eight 

 guineas, and Fawcett refused, and Mr. R. Colling would give no 

 more. On the following Sunday my father went and bargained for 

 the bull, and agreed to give ten guineas. On his way home, he met 

 Robert Colling, and said, " I have bought Fawcett's bull at ten 

 guineas ;" and Colling said, " I will take half," and so it was agreed. 

 My father went for the bull next day, Monday, and paid the ten 

 guineas. The two owned him together during the summer of 1783. 

 My father had eleven cows served by him, and Colling had seven- 

 teen, in the season. In November following, Charles Collins^ said to 

 my father, that as they were done with the bull for the season, he 

 ■would give them eight guineas for him; my father replied he was 

 willing, if Robert was, and so they sold the bull. It was a condi- 

 tion of the sale of my father's part, that he should have all his cows 

 served by the bull, as long as Charles Colling owned him. In Feb- 

 ruary, 1784, my father wanted a cow served by the bull, and sent 

 her to Ketton. Mr. C. Colling sent the man, who took the cow, back 

 to my father, to say that the bull should serve the cow, but he would 

 charge five guineas for it. My father sent the man to Ketton for 

 the cow, and brought her away unserved ; and he had no cows 

 served by the bull afterwards. Charles Colling kept the bull two 

 years, and then sold him to Mr. Hubback, of Northumberland. The 

 bull was called Hubback's bull for many years after Colling sold him. 

 I have heard these facts many times from my father and R. Colling. 



Mr. Alexander Hall, in a letter to Mr. Thomas Bates, the cele- 

 brated breeder, under date of Feb. 14, 1820, says, "I was born in 

 the year 1754, and resided the most of my life at Haughton. Mr. 

 Thomas Hall, with whom I 'ived until his death, resided there, and 

 was a breeder of short-horns for thirty years, before 1778. I knew 

 Mr. Stephenson, of Ketton, Mr. Colling, of Skerningham, father of 

 Robert and Charles, Mr. Waistell, of Great Burdon, Mr. Robson, of 

 Dinsdale, Mr. Bamlet, of Norton, Mr. Fawcett, of Haughton Hill, 

 Mr. Hunter, Mr. Snowdon, and Mr. Banks of Hurworth, and I was 

 well acquainted with their cattle. After the death of Mr. Thomas 

 Hall, I was a breeder of short-horns, and sold a cow to Charles Col- 

 Kng and two to Robert, I used Snowdon's bull and Fawcett's bull, 

 (afterwards called Hubback.) Mr. Hunter got his cattle of Mr. 

 Stephenson, of Ketton, and Mr. Banks got his of Mr. Waistell, of 

 Great Burdon. Mr. Snowdon went to live at Hurworth about the 

 year 1773. He bred his bull, the sire of Hubback, after he went to 

 Hurworth, and he was got by Mr. Robson's bull." 



" In that day I never heard that any of these gentlemen had Dutch 

 or Kyloe blood in their cattle, and they were all noted for the good- 

 ness of their short-horns.'* * 



