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vor in the American showyards of today. Time slips 

 quickly by, and one's memory is not so good as it 

 was, perhaps, and looking back for nearly thirty 

 years one may have forgotten points of an individ- 

 ual animal in which he had no special interest at 

 the time. To make sure I wrote to Arthur Turner 

 of The Leen, the well known Hereford breeder, and 

 asked him for his recollections of the appearance of 

 Anxiety. I will quote his words in confirmation of 

 my own: 



" 'If my memory serves me, he was rather small, 

 dark in color, and without the white mane, remark- 

 ably level in hindquarters, but rather light in neck 

 and forequarters. He had a full eye, but rather 

 weak horns. There was nothing grand or masculine 

 about his appearance. He was a sire of some first- 

 rate stock in America, and I think he helped to estab- 

 lish the type of Hereford the Americans have gone 

 in for — what they term smooth cattle. ' 



"Unfortunately, at that time Mr. Carwardine did 

 not trouble to record his herd fully in the Hereford 

 Herd Book, and as a matter of fact Helena is the 

 only entry of his females in Vol. 10. If, however, 

 we examine the pedigree on the male side, we find 

 she was by De Cote (3060), bred by T. Edwards, of 

 Wintercott, whose celebrated show herd was con- 

 tinued after his death by his widow, who exhibited 

 two of the most remarkable show heifers of that day, 

 Leonora and Beatrice. Perhaps Leonora has had 

 few superiors in the showriag. This herd was in- 

 herited by its present owner, A. E. Hughes of Win- 

 tercott, whose name is second to none as an exhibi- 

 tor of Hereford cattle. Anxiety's sire was Long- 

 horns (4711). This bull was bred by the late Will- 

 iam Taylor of Showle Court, the father of the pres- 

 ent owner of that old-established herd, and was b^ 



