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sold him for 200 guineas to M. de Trehonnais at the 

 Paris International Show, the following year. This 

 sale, which seemed a good one at the time_, was a 

 sonrce of some regret, when two out of the three 

 calves he left behind him appeared in the show 

 yard. One of them, The Lamp of Lothian, a strong, 

 line-loined but rather short bull, from Isabella 

 Hopewell, beat 132 yearlings at the Royal Dublin 

 Show, besides getting the gold medal as the best 

 bull in the yard ; after which he was sold to Mr. 

 Crosby of Ardfelt Abbey, Tralee, for 250 gs., and 

 proved himself one of the best prize-heifer getters in 

 Ireland. The other. Lady of Athelstane, from Play- 

 ful, not only won well herself, but was the dam of 

 Pride of Athelstane, the second-prize calf at Batter- 

 sea, and the first-prize heifer in-calf at Newcastle 

 last year. 



Playful by Fourth Duke of York (10167), a cow 

 of considerable sweetness, nicely-covered huggins and 

 neat bone, introduced the pure Bates blood into the 

 herd, and Cambridge Rose and Britannia by Prince 

 George (12938), a Son of Lord George, are combina- 

 tions of it with Booth^s. The Hawthorn Blossom tribe 

 also came from Warlaby, through Venus de Medicisby 

 Harbinger (10297), who goes back to that celebrated 

 dam of Nectarine Blossom, through Bloom ; but 

 this beautiful white never bred, and died at Southwick. 

 The Princess tribe from Mr. Trontbeck^s of Blen- 

 cowe included Polly Gwynne and her daughters. Prim 

 ^nd Priscilla, and her bull-calf Omega ; and it was 



