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and ascertained, more hereafter, under the head of my 

 second visit, to which I now proceed. 



My first visit had been so much cut short by the 

 weather that I determined to see the Chartley herd 

 again, and this time in winter, when the cattle, being 

 fed with hay in paddocks, can be approached more 

 easily. I was accompanied by Mr. Chandos-Pole-Gell 

 and Mr. John Thornton to Stafford over-night, and we 

 drove to the park, where we met other friends the next 

 morning, December 1st, 1874 — on this occasion ap- 

 proaching it from the south. To refresh our minds 

 with the character of the improved Long-horn, and 

 thus be better able to compare them with the Chartley 

 cattle, we attended the day before, at Birmingham, 

 a sale by Mr. Lythall of fourteen Long-horn heifers, 

 the remains of the herd of the Chapmans of Upton, 

 which, commencing its notoriety by the hire of Bake-, 

 well's celebrated bull " Twopenny," had since been 

 bred, with great attention to purity, for 118 years. 

 These heifers were extremely good and of large size 

 for their age, which was from two years and six to two 

 years and ten months. The next morning we drove 

 first to Chartley Hall, and were very kindly received 

 by Captain Walsh, who, with his wife, the Dowager 

 Countess, and mother of the present Earl, was then 

 residing there. He gave me much valuable informa- 

 tion, and showed me several — a dozen, perhaps — stuffed 

 heads of bulls, cows, and steers. None of these did 

 justice to the living animal, for all had that peculiar 

 shrunken, mummified look which I had before observed 

 in the stuffed heads at Chillingham and in numerous 

 other instances. This is much more apparent in pre- 

 served specimens of the genus Bos than in most other 



