102 ?IELD ANI> PEUN. 



Angus cow is white on the shoulder and sparky be- 

 low, and Belville and Bracelet represent the Short- 

 horn interest. Duntroon and Whitestocldngs have 

 gone up as king and queen of the West Highlanders, 

 and Sir Colin Campbell and Colly Hill of the kjr- 

 shires. A dark Suffolk chesnut still lingers on the 

 walls, and so does Splendour, the most beautiful of 

 Clevelands, although his breed is not in honour ; and 

 Sir William Wallace and the Perth mare stand boldly 

 out as the Clydesdales of the present. 



In the Museum every Scottish root and vegetable 

 is modelled in wax, from the mangel-wurzel down to 

 the tiniest pods. Disease has its specimens as well 

 as health. One turnip has borne out the "loves of 

 the plants," and though it cannot exactly be said to 



" Eye with mute tenderness its distant dam. 

 And seem to bleat a vegetable lamb," 



it bears a strange affinity to a ram's head. Finger- 

 and-toe has converted a potato into such a natural 

 hand, that you begin to think that man may throw 

 back to a vegetable as well as to an ape. A kohl- 

 rabi has taken the more airy form of a purple but- 

 terfly. There is also a section of the bole of every 

 Scottish tree, and a case of worsteds to illustrate 

 vegetable dyes. In the gallery there hangs a por- 

 trait of the Dunearn ox, a spotted shapeless moun- 

 tain, half Fife and half Shorthorn, with some West- 

 Highlanders flanking it; but the stuffer's aid has 

 not been invoked, save in the case of one huge 

 horned head of the "Ovis Ammon.^' A sheep- 



