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forth his beautiful head to greet us, and walks most 

 vigorously the whole length of his paddock into his 

 shed for further recognition at Mr. Drewry's hands. 

 Third Grand Duchess of Oxford was up feeding, and 

 Mr. Fawcett's Eliza 10th and Lady Butterfly's Duchess 

 were in quarantine in a paddock. The crosses be- 

 tween Fifteenth Duke of Oxford and Galloway heifers 

 were in " the marsh meadows" some forty strong, and 

 they prove to be grey, or jet-black, or blood-red, or 

 bronze, or rich roans, and nearly all without horns, 

 when five lads drive them up. 



Grand Duke 3rd by Second Duke of Bolton (by 

 Grand Duke from Florence, a daughter of Mr. Richard 

 Booth's Fame) was in residence at Springfield Hall, 

 near Lancaster, when we first went there in '59, and 

 so was Prince Imperial, that son of Second Grand 

 Duke and Bridecake a daughter of Bridget, to whom 

 the Grand Duchesess also owe their Booth cross. He 

 was thick through the breast, and with well-laid 

 shoulders, and though not with quite the grandeur of 

 some of our best bulls, a touch must be dead or saucy 

 that did not own him mellow. We found the footsteps 

 of Fame in the Fenella family which sprung from her 

 daughter Fay crossed with Grand Duke. Mr. Bolden's 

 brother purchased Mussulman, a son of Old Cherry, 

 to take to Australia, for 150 guineas. Mr. Bolden 

 liked the sort, and had Cherry Duchess by Grand 

 Duke from a Cherry cow which he purchased at Mr. 

 Lax's sale. Her son Second Cherry Duke was sold 

 to Mr. Shepherd of Shethin. Mr. Bolden also had the 

 Waterloo tribe, on which Mr. Bates set very great 

 store. The latter bought a heifer by Waterloo (2816), 

 dam from Waterloo, from a small farmer who had 

 used the bull. She was so good that she was sent 

 with five of the best cows from Kirklevington to Mr. 

 Whitaker's Norfolk, and had a rare calf, Waterloo 3rd, 

 by him. 



Mr. Bolden inherited his taste for shorthorns from 



