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coachman, he still liked to hear the crack of his own 

 whip, and a small, but terribly select herd, of about 

 fifteen, with Rosette as its lady-patroness, has gra- 

 dually sprung up at the Hodder side. 



Except where Mr. Peel joins in on the Sladeburn 

 side, the whole of the valley of the Hodder and the 



Fidelity and Pearl, at Warwick, the next year ; and the former, after » 

 producing one calf, ended her days as first prize fat cow at Liverpool. 

 Baron Hopewell's blood brought out a first and second in the bull-calf 

 class at Hull that year, where Emma, Royal Butterfly, Beauty's Butter- 

 fly, and Frederick's Diadem were all winners, and the Warwick heifers 

 replaced in the same order. Col. Towneley and Mr. Richard Booth 

 pitted the best lot of beasts against each other at Blackburn for the Cup, 

 and the former won. At Durham County, Nectarine Blossom beat 

 ' ' The Royal " for the best beast in the yard. Save here and at Chester 

 and Manchester he never suffered defeat. They once thought Beauty's 

 Butterfly was in calf when the Duke of Athol ran with her, and in fact 

 she had every symptom of it. She was a month away with Rose of 

 Towneley on their Fat Tour in '59, and they took fourteen cups or first 

 prizes at Birmingham, London, and York. She was best in the yard at 

 all three places. She was kept more than twelve months after her 

 Smithfield Club medal, and won at Rugby the next year, without any 

 extra keep, at 3 years 9 months. Perhaps she might have been a trifle 

 heavier in the thigh, and the "dimple" at her tail-head, of which 

 Punch talked, might have been dispensed with. She was never weighed 

 alive, but her girth at her best was 9ft. 1 in. At last she was killed by 

 a butcher near Huddersfield, and her womb was found to be quite con- 

 tracted. Neither she nor any of the rest ever had a gill of porter (as 

 some people reported) but only natural food. 



After this year, the showing strength of Towneley began to slacken, 

 and Romulus Butterfly was only second at Canterbury, and Royal 

 Butterfly 10th second at Battersea. Frederick's back gave way early in 

 '6 1, when he was about twelve years old, and his last calf, Frederick's 

 Farewell, from Vestris 3rd, arrived in the September of that year. The 

 Towneley fortunes revived considerably at Worcester, where this heifer 

 won as a yearling, and Double Butterfly and Perfume as a pair. Roan 

 Knight's Butterfly and Royal Butterfly's Duchess also took first and 

 second honours in the in-calf heifer class, when Second Queen of May 

 and Rosedale proved barren. Culshaw's greatest disappointment was not 

 winning there with Royal Butterfly's Pageant in the calf class. She was 

 sold at the sale for 590 guineas, and died after calving. Ten firsts and 

 one second was the wind up at the North Lancashire, and the herd left 

 off in full show swing with Royal Butterfly in his seventh year, and as 

 brisk as ever. The Royal was a *vonderful traveller, and Culshaw 

 always fought him with great pluck. He beat Prince of Prussia at Can- 

 terbury after Mr. Douglas had gone for the latter in Lancashire the year 



