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Queen of Trumps next^ and then Rose of Atbelstane. 

 Lady Pigot could not resist her even at five 

 hundredj and the Branches herd never had a heavier 

 blov/ than when she died unbeaten and in prepara- 

 tion to meet The Duchesses at Leeds. Second Queen 

 of Atbelstane was also a good one^ and in that won- 

 derful box with the top-lights, and the walls papered 

 with prize-cards, she looked, with the roan ^' Gem^' 

 as her lusty foil, pretty nearly invincible. Still, she 

 was never a public favourite. Nothing improved 

 more than Pride of Atbelstane from ''^The Lady'^ 

 as a yearling, and she was well worthy, as a two- 

 year-old in-calf to win a first prize for Mr. Douglas 

 at the Newcastle Royal, in a class where Rose of 

 Summer, Third Queen of Trumps, and Rose of Atbel- 

 stane had all showed the way. 



Captain Balco, for form and style, fine quarters and 

 loins, was quite the bead bull at Atheist aneford, 

 though he was hardly so deep-fleshed as Sir James 

 the Rose, a bull of great sweetness, but a little slack 

 behind the shoulders and a trifle soft in his handling. 

 Hiawatha, another son of Playful, was not so good 

 as Sir James, but he was a clever winner, and beat, 

 among others, the great Lord Garlics j and two 

 whites, Preemason, who was pretty nearly all Booth, 

 and Next-of-Kin, who was second and then first at 

 the Highland Society, closed wdth Lady of Atbel- 

 stane the history of a very remarkable Shorthorn 

 career. 



The kennels of the East Lothian, of which Mr. 



