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" perhaps more noble in his look." His thighs were 

 always wonderful ; and even in his thirteenth summer 

 when he entered the ring, " a mere shadow of a King 

 bull," at the Manchester Royal, but with two cows 

 in calf to him in the yard, they had not greatly 

 wasted. 



Box after box was then opened in the higher 

 yard — out marched the grand prize cow Roan 

 Duchess II., who gave sixteen quarts a day after 

 her first calving ; Rose of Towneley, a future Smith- 

 field first, and Beauty's Butterfly going on steadily 

 for the next gold medal. Then we had the Chester 

 ten in pairs, Fredericks Rosa and Venilia's Butter- 

 fly, or " Master Butterfly's last ;" Alice Butterfly by 

 Master Butterfly, and Young Barmpton Rose by 

 " Dick," as also were Emma and Pearl ; then came 

 Evadne from Emily and Violante from Roan Duchess 

 2nd ; and lastly Diadem and Fidelity, both of them 

 by Frederick. That strawberry roan bull, then ten 

 years old, was only a ruin, and we never saw his head 

 again till it hung behind Colonel Towneley's seat 

 along with Butterfly's at the sale lunch, looking down 

 with glassy eyes on the scene they had called into 

 being. Mr. Carr once claimed from the auctioneer's 

 rostrum, the premiership of winner getting for 

 Booth's Crown Prince, but in an instant " Joe" was 

 at his elbow, and asking him in the most suggestive 

 tones if he " ever heard of a bidl they called Frederick!' 

 u Fred" was never shown, but the tenants used him 

 for three years, and soon found that they were getting 

 something better than their neighbours. The calves 



rancorously persisted in living, they plunged him into " a very delicate 

 state of health," which was also a mere play of fancy. Eighty 

 cowes calved to him his second season in Australia, and then he died 

 of a sunstroke by the roadside, after a long walk, with a stallion, to a 

 Cattle Show at Melbourne ; so he never became beef after all. He must 

 have had a rare constitution, as he was turned out among an almost in- 

 definite number of cows in a large run to fight his way for eighteen months. 



