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cow. Her fault was, that she was a little too prominent 

 over the hooks. She was a difficult animal to prepare 

 for the show-yard, as she had a tremendous appetite 

 and gave a lot of milk. Empress 312, who had a bull 

 calf Prince Imperial 223 never bred again, and the calf 

 proved useless. Blinkbonny was a very well-topped cow, 

 but wanted in underline, and had a plain head. Cordelia 

 never bred anything worth noticing, though herself not de- 

 ficient in second-rate merit. Dorrit was a very neat, sweet 

 little cow, and far superior to her daughter Hinda, who was 

 commonplace in appearance. Hinda, however, always bred 

 well. Dorrit's heifer calf Alice was a prize-taker, but being 

 a free-martin, never bred. One of Hinda's calves was Lala 

 Eookh 730, whose name appears in many pedigrees, and 

 who herself was a very good heifer. Nannie and Duchess 

 were both of a good, useful sort, and the latter was the 

 granddam of Mr M'Combie's celebrated ox Black Prince. 

 Mayflower turned out a beautiful cow. She was second 

 and first at the Highland Society's shows, though it is 

 believed that in the latter case she failed to qualify, not 

 being in calf. Mayflower ended her show-yard career at 

 the Smithfield show, where she won the first prize for Mr 

 M'Combie, who bought her along with several others a 

 few years later. During the time that Mr Collie continued 

 to keep polled stock, he bred several animals of note. 

 Normahal 726 and Zara 1228, descendants of Hinda, were 

 both very good. The former was a very taking heifer; 

 and though she did not grow very large as a cow, she 

 looked extremely well when Mr Carnegie saw her and bid 

 for her at Mr M'Combie's sale in 1867. Zara, who won 

 the second prize at Battersea, was also a very handsome 

 heifer, and, as previously noticed, could boast of being 

 the ancestress of many prize-takers. 



