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symptoms of frost to disturb their serenity : and a 

 fervid Liverpool Fenian must have thought that " the 

 hour and the man" had come at last, when the Irish 

 packet-boats disgorged hundreds of mysterious and 

 bearded men at the landing-stage, who told each other 

 without disguise that they would " tak siven or six 

 anyhow" (evidently meaning Saxon lives), and used 

 two passwords of dire import, " Woman in Black" and 

 " Master M'Grath." These conspirators might be 



Belvedere of the "White Bull," or the Princess family, and two roan 

 heifers were the produce. A double cross of Belvedere brought the 

 colour to white for the first time in Duchess 50th from Duchess 38th, by 

 the Duke of Northumberland, from the first roan, Duchess 33rd. 



Cambridge Rose 5th, by Second Cleveland Lad, was five years old 

 at the Kirklevington sale, when Mr. Bolden, senior, bought her, and 

 with the exception of Cambridge Rose 6th, who was kept as a memento 

 at Cobham, and Cambridge Rose 7th, which was purchased by Mr. 

 Downes (and died in '67), and from him by Mr. Bolden for 70 guineas, 

 the next autumn, there were then no more descendants in the land of 

 the celebrated Hustler's Red Rose. Cobham proved the value of this 

 blood by the biddings for the gay old cow, and her Marmaduke calf, 

 Moss Rose. The First and Second Duke of Cambridge alone repre- 

 sent Cambridge Rose 7th, and as she persisted in breeding nothing but 

 bulls, the tribe was lost to Springfield at her death. 



When Mr. Bolden had got home old Duchess 51st, and compared 

 her with some other very good Shorthorns on his. farm, he became so 

 convinced of the goodness of the Bates blood, that he determined 

 to make his stand on it. His first move was to purchase Grand Duke 

 (10,284), by Second Cleveland Lad from Duchess 55th, for 205 guineas, 

 the same price that Mr. Hay of Shethin, Aberdeenshire, gave for him 

 at Kirklevington. At the time he bought him, he and his father had 

 several cows almost useless, after having been served repeatedly by idle 

 bulls ; but with him and successive Duchess bulls, the fertility (which 

 Mr. Bates attributed, in the case of the Duchesses, to the cross with 

 Belvedere) gradually returned. The same was observable in other 

 herds where Duchess bulls were introduced, and Earl Ducie did not 

 conceal his opinion that his was saved by the use of them. Grand Duke 

 was four years old when he came, and he departed for America two 

 years after ; and whether in addition to the Dukes of Cambridge we 

 look at May Duke and Grand Turk (the sire of Great Mogul), from 

 Booth cows ; and two Cherry Dukes from the Cherry tribe, all of which 

 have been sold and resold at high figures, Mr. Bolden stands as a bull- 

 breeder second to none. 



Grand Duke 2nd, by Fourth Duke of York, from Duchess 64th, who 

 was calved at Mr. Bolden's, had rather more white on him than Grand 

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