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adjacent hills belong to Colonel Towneley ; and Mr. 

 Eastwood has about iooo acres in the lowland, and 

 4000 on the fell in his hands. His flock consists of 

 upwards of 2300, and of these the lonks and cross-breds 

 stick to the fell, and the Shropshires and Southdowns 

 to the grass-lands and turnips of the valley. " The 



before ; and when he had no more ' ' Royal" worlds left to conquer, he 

 went to York to meet Van Tromp and Skyrocket, who beat Royal 

 Turk and such a large field of bulls at Leeds Royal the year before. In 

 his last circuit (1863) he couldn't go to Ulverston, as he went home with 

 his hind foot cut, so Master Frederick went and won there. Two days 

 after that he was at Lancaster, with his foot tied up, and then off by 

 night to Skipton, and the next night to Halifax. He then rested at 

 home for two or three days, and off to Keighley to appear in a winning 

 family party. On he went all night to Wigton for Mr. Clark Irving's 

 Cup, and beat Mr. Wilson's Duke of Tyne, who had won at Worcester 

 that year, and off all night again to Clitheroe. Thus he finished his 

 show course — in the railway truck at night, and in the show field by 

 day — and without a blemish. Clitheroe witnessed the close of the 

 showing, and the five that went there had each a first. At Wigton, 

 Mr. George H. Head, the Cumberland banker, offered 250 guineas for 

 Royal Butterfly nth, and Culshaw would have taken 300 guineas. 

 There were not many in calf to ' ' The Royal" at the sale, as the blood 

 suited second Duke of Wharfedale, but all the dairy cows held to him. 

 After the sale the four shorthorns which were repurchased held, and the 

 dairy cows missed. 



The first herd won in fourteen years upwards of 2000/. in money 

 prizes, besides 22 cups, which included the Farmers' Gazette Challenge 

 Cup, which was won by Colonel Towneley the first three years it was 

 offered, and the Purcell Challenge Cup at the Royal Irish Agricultural 

 Improvement Society, which had been offered for several years and 

 had never been won thrice in succession by one breeder before. There 

 were also 26 gold medals, and more than a hundred silver and bronze 

 medals and other trophies. The situation of Towneley has always been 

 bad, both on account of " the blacks" from the chimneys, the countless 

 dogs which accompany the pedestrians along the open footpaths, and 

 the butchers and others who will handle the cows as they pass along, 

 forgetful that they may have been near diseased beasts. Belching 

 chimneys are coming nearer and nearer, to within 100 yards of the farm- 

 yard, and one where several tons of salt are burnt to glaze tiles, spreads 

 smoke like a thick white fog, and taints the air with sulphuric acid. 

 Several of the oak trees have died from its effects, and the herbage 

 suffers as well. 



" The Royal" was born on August 12th, 1857, and he never showed 

 any symptoms of failing until 1867, when he had a sort of climacteric, 

 and it was thought that he must be killed. However, he got over it, 



