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at Kelso (with M'Combie as Chief Justice) , and Har- 

 riet at Kirkcudbright and Dalbeattie. Semiramis 

 also beat her at Newcastle and Kirkcudbright in ^64. 



Galloway cows are generally very safe breeders, 

 and there was a singular proof of it at Meikleculloch, 

 as twelve out of thirteen had live calves^ and another 

 was shortly due. Galloway twins are of rare occur- 

 rence, and, curiously enough, five-sixths of the 

 Meikleculloch calves were heifers. They were all by 

 Thompson's Sir Walter, a son of Bob Burns, a bull 

 to whom Mr, Graham has always been faithful. We 

 found his blood (through his son Sir James) in 

 Second Hermione from Dinah, and Hose of Gallo- 

 way from Semiramis ; and there, too, just ready to 

 depart to the Duke of Buccleuch's herd at Drum- 

 lanrig, after her Newcastle victory, was Harriet 2nd 

 by Clansman, son of Harriet. The byre was full of 

 other prize winners — Emma the first Battersea two- 

 year-old, Matilda a second at the Highland Society, 

 Semiramis, and old Bess, fourteen years old, and quite 

 gone in her vessel. 



It was a seven miles' ride from Dalbeattie to South- 

 wick, first among peat bogs and then among the 

 heather, and the granite boulders which Dr. Chalmers 

 spoke of on his visit as " the riddlings of the earth." 

 At last we got over the brow, and turned by Bore- 

 land side into the wooded vale of South wick, with its 

 warm farm steadings, and its silver firs and beeches, 

 and so on to the home where Rose of Autumn spent 

 the autumn of her life, and Pride of Southwick was 



