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the assertion that Earl Spencer's cattle were " fed, 

 groomed, and clothed like race-horses/' with a flat 

 negative, and another English breeder indorsed him. 

 The Buccleuch Shorthorns and the Richmond 

 Southdowns were very distinguished at Aberdeen the 

 next year, and M'Combie won his maiden prize 

 with an ox, and showed two fonr-year-olds of " great 

 merit.'' Booth with Bracelet, Bates with his Oxford 

 cow, and Crofton^s heifers were in the shorthorn ranks 

 in '41 at Berwick-on-Tweed ; and Elhot of Hind- 

 hope fairly vanquished Sutherlandshire on his own 

 ground. At Edinburgh, Crofton's Provost was first 

 for the fifty-sovereign prize in a field of twenty-four 

 bulls ; and the Duke of Buccleuch's were first, second, 

 and third in the cow class ; while the blood horses In- 

 heritor and Little Known were among the extra stock, 

 as Dardanelles and Patron had been at Berwick. 

 Jonas Webb's shearlings, which had been prevented 

 by stress of weather from coming to Berwick, were 

 winners at Dundee, where Watson of Keillor and 

 Aitchison of Linhope made a brilliant finish to a 

 great show career. Glasgoiv had one of its monster 

 meetings in August, but the time was not steadily 

 fixed yet, and the Society were at Dumfries in the 

 October of the following year, and fell in for the fes- 

 tivities of the southern race meeting. " The Belville 

 year" of '46 (of which we spoke "in another place") 

 preceded the Aberdeen year, when M'Combie began 

 in earnest with four firsts, the Brothers Cruickshank 

 and Hay of Shethin kept the head of the Shorthorn 



