330 Saddle and Sirloin. 



the appointed day dawned bitterly on the lad, when 

 after lying awake all night, he received a message to 

 the effect that Sir Charles and his party had changed 

 their minds. However, Bell by Bertram was pur- 

 chased on the Broughton account, at Mr. Whitaker's 

 sale ; and it was under Mr. Thomas Mason, who 

 soon afterwards came as agent, that the future 

 " Talleyrand of trainers " gleaned his chief experi- 

 ence. Twenty-four-years of his life were thus spent ; 

 then followed a year and a half with Mr. Ambler ; 

 and in 1849 ne came to Towneley, and, working 

 on the good material Mr. Eastwood and Mr. Straf- 

 ford had previously collected for him, he soon 

 found himself at the head of a herd which was des- 

 tined to play no second part in the annals of Short- 

 horns.* 



It was in the Spring of 1859 when we first saw 

 Towneley ; and Vestris III., who won the first prize 

 in the cow class at the Paris Universal Show, when 

 she was only 2\ years old, was our first introduction. 

 She stood with Pride at the lodge byre, and a drive 

 of a mile up the avenue brought us to some farm 



* Culshaw took the command of the Towneley herd on the 1st of 

 Jan. '49. While with Mr. Ambler he took Senator to the York Royal 

 Show, and beat Mr. Bates's Second and Third Dukes of Oxford. Mr. 

 Bates stood looking at the pair with his hat over his brow, and could 

 scarcely believe it. Mr. Eastwood had just sold his herd to Colonel 

 Towneley, and they were all at the low barn. The lot consisted of 

 Parkinson's Cressida, Madeline, Mantle, Gipsy (a famous breeder and 

 milker), her daughter Gem, the dam of Ruby by Lax's Duke, a very 

 thick fleshed one, and the dam of Richard Cceur de Lion, familiarly 

 called "Dick," and the yearling heifers Alice from Madeline, and 

 Beauty from Mantle. Buttercup was also there, in calf with Butterfly, 

 and quite feeble from foot and mouth, Bessy, six weeks off calving 

 Frederick, Parkinson's Lavinia the dam of Garrick, Lallah Rookh 

 and Duke of Lancaster. Jeweller was another, and so was the 

 yearling Horatio by Hamlet, from Buttercup, one of the first that 

 Colonel Towneley sold. Lord George by Leonard, from Birthday, 

 came soon after that, and got second Duke of Athol from Duchess 54th, 

 which was sold to Mr. Thome, with Duchess of Athol, at 500 guineas 

 the pair. 



