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always placed his candidates well ; and in due season 

 he cried quits with Duchesses 77th and 78th when he 

 met them at the Durham County. His Queen of the 

 Ocean, as the Buttersea judges said, was " all that a 

 cow should be," and earned that very rare privilege, 

 and generally accorded to none but dead statesmen, a 

 note of admiration from Lord Palmerston and Mr. 

 Disraeli — who both had their hands on her — on one 

 and the selfsame day. He very seldom showed bulls, 

 and Hopewell, Windsor, Bullion, Prince Alfred, Sir 

 James, Lord of the Valley (who was kept latterly to 

 cross the whites, and brought him a fine fall of heifer 

 calves), and British Crown were the only others that 

 ever won anything for him ; and three of them only 

 one prize apiece. His show luck burnt brightly to 

 the close, and in his very last Yorkshire, the young 

 ones not only went well to the front ; but old Prince 

 Alfred, after making a perfect Ulysses of himself in 

 the home farms of princes, emperors, and baronets, 

 came out and was first in the bull class in the eleventh 

 year of his age. 



A more remarkable contrast than these two cele- 

 brated brothers, both in form and temperament, is 

 seldom met with in practice. John, the elder, was, 

 like Robert Colling, perhaps the more original thinker 

 of the two, but not the same steady worker. He was 

 more the man of the world, fond of a gallop with the 

 Bedale, and always ripe and ready for a little fun ; 

 while Richard was much more of the dignified recluse, 

 and thought " no place like home." John delighted 

 to go off on judging expeditions ; while Richard never 

 donned the ermine, and only cared for a good lodging 

 or his " ease at mine inn" during a great show, that he 

 might see a few select standard-bearers, who would 

 share his winning pleasure, or sympathize with him if 

 he was beaten. John was an apt and ready speaker, 

 and never sat down without some quaint racy senti- 

 ment, which set the table in a roar ; Richard merely 



