TINWALD DOWNS TO HALLIIEATHS. 343. 



are kept at Holstane, where Mr. Jolinstone re- 

 sides. His Grace rather haugs to Galloways; but 

 still, he has bought a few Anguses, for the sake of 

 trying the cross. The young cows and heifers are 

 principally by Freebooter (203), and among them 

 were the first, second, and third in the yearling class 

 at Kelso. Mr. Graham of MeiklecuUoch bred 

 Freebooter, as we have already stated, and sold him 

 to Mr. Birrel of Guards, who sold him back after he 

 was second at the Carlisle Royal, and so he found 

 his way to libbers, like his nephew Knight of Lid- 

 desdale, the present chief of the black harem, and 

 others of the MeiklecuUoch cracks. The calves are 

 generally dropped in January and February, to be 

 ready for the Highland Society, and are suckled 

 twice or three times a-day for six months, Agnes 

 Waugh has led a vestal life among them for nearly 

 thirty years. She " was no' at Battersea^" a^ she 

 observes, ^' wl' the kye ; but I ivur at Kelso, and we 

 made grandly out wV the heifers there.'' We had 

 met nothing so genuine since old Hannah at Lord 

 Feversham^s. Second Agnes, or Agnes Locker- 

 bie, her assistant, was quite a second edition of Ea- 

 venscroft's Polled Herd-Book, in a kirtle and bare 

 feet ; and two such able field-marshals soon put the 

 Freebooters and all the rest- of them in array 

 for us. 



There was a curious union of Herd--Book numbers 

 in M^Gill by BalsaUoch (92) from Halliday (92), 

 the second cow at Battersea, where her daughter 



