2 76 Saddle and Sirloin. 



Wharfedaie Rose, which has been sold at 100/., to go 

 along with her, would have won to a certainty if she 

 had been entered. The pangs which he suffers in 

 consequence must be untold. Mr. Cochrane's pair 

 have a levee in their barn all day, and devotees go 

 wandering off through the hot haze into the park to 

 gaze on Duchess 86th, 87th, 88th, and 91st, as well as 

 Mild Eyes and her daughter Bright Eyes, and a very 

 fine Waterloo heifer* 



* When we first saw the herd in '59, not long after its removal from 

 Earl's Court, we began with the earliest purchase Duchess 67th, and 

 her daughter 72nd, the first calf that Captain Gunter ever bred. Her 

 next daughter the white 75th was third in the array, and the handsomest 

 of the three, and then came "the twins" 78th and 79th which ran 

 such a splendid career in the show yard. We see the little roan and 

 white through the mist of years once more struggling with the herd 

 boys, and thought the roan rather nicer in her coat, but the white 

 neater, and in after years the bench hardly knew which to take. Having 

 thus exhausted the fruits of the first Tortworth bid, Duchess 70th bore 

 her witness to the second with her calves 73rd and 77th, and we look 

 back to our comment that "the former had more substance and the 

 latter more elegance of the twain," and that she was the best, but no 

 one dare predict such a future for her. She rose the Royal ranks step 

 by step, third as a yearling at Warwick, second at Canterbury, and 

 first at Leeds. Duchess 69th had only calved that morning, and though 

 we could not rouse her after the labours of the day, we could judge of 

 her fine scale and enjoy the gentle grandeur of the head, which had 

 been specially modelled for Mr. Brandreth Gibbs's testimonial. Sixth 

 Duke of Oxford was waiting outside to receive us ; he was a perfect 

 Esau at his birth, and there could be no doubt whence his stock derived 

 their rich hair. 



["A period of nine years must be supposed to elapse," as the play- 

 bills have it.] 



The old cows were in the bottom of the park, and took a good deal 

 of finding in the heat. There was the roan Duchess 86th, with the old- 

 fashioned wide-spreading horn ; the 87th, of a lighter roan and with a 

 rare loin ; the white 88th, which had been amiss ; and 91st, one of the 

 same colour and rare substance. The twins and the 77th had died or 

 been slaughtered, and 96th and 94th were in the home field, and Taylor 

 tells us how once they thought 94th the best, and that the former is the 

 only Duchess which lacks the Usurer cross. The numbers iooth, 99th, 

 98th, and 97th once roamed together in the home pasture unbroken, 

 but Mr. Cochrane had taken his choice and borne off the last to 

 Canada at 100 guineas. She is from 92nd, a daughter of 84th, "which 

 broke down on us as a calf for Leeds." Her once constant companion 



