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and the beadle), t^A^o Argyll blacks, Rliyneberg 

 and Cruib, bred by Colin Campbell of Jura, and of 

 ^' Host, tron each, sinking offals,'^ represent the So- 

 ciety's earhest " black cattle'^ love ; and a group of 

 Alpacas served to recal the show at Glasgow in 1840, 

 and made us think, every time we looked up at them, 

 of the Poll Herd Book, and its Grey-Breasted 

 Jock . 



William McDonald, the earliest secretary, in 

 buckles and powder, with the charter in his hand, 

 by Baeburn, faces you as you enter the Council 

 Chamber. John fifth Duke of Argyll in his robes as 

 a peer hangs behind the President's chair; and 

 opposite him is the bust of another secretary, Gilbert 

 Innes of Stow. Much of the remaining wall space 

 is taken up b}^ portraits of early stock winners, but, 

 one by one, the venerable antiques, both in breed 

 and drawing, disappear and a Gourlay Steell 

 succeeds. One of the Duke of Buccleuch's Leices- 

 ter tups is there, and quaintly described as " A full 

 Thomson/^ There, too, are Cheviots, black-faced, 

 and an old breed from Brae Moray, with roan face 

 and legs, hairy wool, and as wild as a roe-deer, and 

 with lambs which are always yeaned with a red spot 

 on the shoulder and the tip of the tail. Jonas Webb's 

 Southdown does not lack a place, neither do white 

 Berkshires, or a Western boar with a nose like an 

 ant-eater. The Hereford is leggy enough ; the Fife 

 bull, with his white black-tipped horns, looks ready 

 either for the knife or the plough-share ; Walker's 



