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earlier maturity from " the banks of the stately Tees" 

 would ruthlessly push them from their, place and 

 reduce them to a mere fraction in the Midlands, never 

 vexed his soul. Their hold of public favour had been 

 long and sure, and their greatest triumph was to 

 come. If " Two Pounder" had then the reputation of 

 earning 800 guineas in one season and serving some 

 picked home ewes as well, the Dishley bull, " Two 

 Penny," was fated to make the herd of Fowler of 

 Rollright, and swell its sale average to 81/. 14s-. 3^. for 

 fifty-one ! 



Longhorns of some kind or another, and generally 

 with good milk marks and the faculty of fattening at 

 a great age, were at this period the farmers' friends. 

 They excited the admiration of Dr. Johnson in Derby- 

 shire, and led him to note that his host "whose talk is 

 of bullocks," sold one of them for 100 guineas ; and 

 as good prices were obtained for the armenta fronte 

 lata — those blacks with white backs, which Sir A. 

 Ramsay took to Scotland as a cross for the Aberdeen- 

 shire, and whose horn practice in Garstang market 

 was duly felt and recorded by Pennant as he journeyed 

 towards the Hebrides. 



The Holderness, a fine, large-framed breed, with 

 good backs, long quarters, remarkably clean, straight 

 legs, and well-developed udders, grazed in the district 

 north of the Humber. Many of them were white, 

 with blue or bay flecks ; but the largest number were 

 dark mouse and white, and, as was natural from their 

 proximity to Hull and their general appearance, they 

 were thought to be of Dutch origin. Milk was their 

 specialty, and Mr. Curwen was wont to value the dairy 

 produce of his twenty at 25/. a year. Under the local 

 name of " Teeswaters," the Shorthorns, to which the 

 Holderness seemed to bear most affinity in character, 

 had got a strong hold in Durham several years before 

 the close of the century ; but still it was not until 

 " The Durham Ox" commenced his six years of 



