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Heir at Law made 283 gs. at the Soutliwick. As re- 

 gards buUs^ Jobson^s Adam (2920), Whitaker's Fitz- 

 maurice (3807) of the Fairfax sort, Lax^s Baron of Ra- 

 vensworth (7811), who gave good shoulders and 

 bosoms, Colonel Towneley's light red-and-white 

 Hudibras Heir at Law (13005 by Hopewell, who 

 brought more money than any of them, and Ambler's 

 M'Turk, a great useful bull with a dark horn, were 

 all used in turn. 



Mr. Stewart had many dealings with Mr. Douglas, 

 and Brenda, Volga, Rose of Autumn, Rose of Cash- 

 mere, and the two whites. Clarionet and Venus de Me- 

 dicis, both speculative bargains, were among his prin- 

 cipal purchases. At the sale in 1860, seventy-eight 

 cows and heifers and nineteen bulls were disposed of, 

 and Rose of Autumn returned in her old age to Mr. 

 Douglas, who had bought her daughter. Rose of 

 Sharon, and at one time or another, Baroness Brenda, 

 Heath BelLby Hudibras, Lord Raglan (13244), &c., 

 all bred at Southwick. M^Turk (85 gs.j fell to Mr. 

 Ambler, Heir of Killerby (157 gs.) to Mr. Stirling of 

 Keir, and Pride of Southwick (70 gs.), then a year- 

 ling, to Lady Pigot. Hence, looking at the short 

 and simple annals of those sixteen years, it would 

 seem that there were plenty of plums. Lady Pigot 

 had espied the merits of " The Pride'^ at a glance, as 

 she grazed in the fifty-acre holme in front of the 

 house. Her ladyship was then on her way to Mr. 

 Douglases, to conclude a purchase for the hapless 

 First Queen of Atheist ane, and decided to take hen 



