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most others, as might have been expected : for this variety 

 has less tendency to black and more to red than most 

 others have. Old Cole, the keeper, informed Mr. Hind- 

 marsh that during the thirty -three years he had been 

 there, there had been " about half a dozen which had 

 small brown or blue spots upon the cheeks and necks ; but 

 these, with any defective ones, were always destroyed." 

 Into this I determined to inquire further ; and I, there- 

 fore, about a month after he was shot, carefully examined 

 at Mr. Ward's, in Wigmore Street, the remains, still there, 

 of the Prince of Wales's bull. The head and neck had 

 been stuffed; and the skin, and the four feet also sepa- 

 rately, up to half-way between the fetlock and knee-joint, 

 had been preserved — and all these were intended for the 

 purpose of decoration at Sandringham. The neck, down 

 to the dewlap, and the upper part of the face was 

 covered with thick and very curly white hair — not very 

 long, for Mr. Jacob Wilson said he had not yet got his 

 winter's coat ; yet much longer and more curly, and 

 different in character from that on the rest of the body, 

 w T here it was straight, short, and not mossy in character. 

 The hoofs were as black as ebony. But what struck me 

 most was this : his cheeks and neck, and still more 

 perceptibly that part of the skin which had covered 

 the shoulders and the withers, had upon them 

 very distinctly marked small spots of a black-roan 

 character. Some of them were as large as a sixpence, 

 some smaller, a few perhaps larger, and they were on 

 those parts numerous. Indications of the same thing were 

 apparent on the skin above the hoofs ; on this part were 

 numerous, but isolated, black hairs ; there was, moreover, 

 on one leg a black spot of the same size as those on the 

 neck. Armed with this information, I pressed Michie 



