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tradition of their having followed the band of music. 

 These cattle were kept in modern times at Ellenthorpe, 

 a farm outside the park at Gisburne. 



" I saw the same day the picture at Gisburne Park, 

 which is thus entered in the catalogue : ' Gisburne 

 Park, a.d. 1730, with portraits of the first Lord Eibbles- 

 dale's grandfather and father, and his aunts, Catherine 

 and Mary Lister, with the white cattle in the back- 

 ground, by Nollekens.' The white cattle are quite in 

 the background, and tell us nothing but that they were 

 white and hornless. The sign of the ' White Bull,' at 

 the public-house at Gisburne, is a very excellent painting 

 By Ward, E.A., and is admitted to be an admirable 

 likeness of a Gisburne bull. It is a white bull, very like 

 a Short-horn, but without horns, and rather (but not 

 very much) higher shoulders, and worse quarters than a 

 Short-horn bull. The nose, ears, and hoofs are all 

 white. There is a tinge of pink inside the ears, but not 

 more than is needed to give the expression of shadow 

 and semi- transparency ; I don't think it is meant to 

 indicate coloured hair. This is a different and inde- 

 pendent picture from the bull in Whitaker's ' Craven.' 



"On December 1st, 1874, I saw the stuffed white 

 cow at Owen's College, Manchester; it is ticketed as 

 being of the Gisburne breed of cattle, and was presented 

 to the curator, Mr. Boyd Dawkins informed me, before 

 1839, and is entered in the catalogue as 'the white-eared 

 variety.' It is white all over — white ears inside and 

 out, white hoofs, and what probably was a white nose, 

 but which is now a sort of ashv-brown. The hair, as it 

 is now, is rather short, more like that of an Alderney 

 than a Short-horn, with an inclination to curl about 

 the quarters. With the exception of sex, this looked 

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