416 A HISTORY OF HEREFORD CATTLE 



Olympian nights, with the "immortals" all in form! 

 Those walls could indeed tell many a tale, were they 

 not dumb, of "parliaments" at which clever "chair- 

 men" ruled the roast; where Drake and Parker 

 served viands and vintages of the best; where 

 wit and wisdom, jibe and repartee, went round; 

 where fields once fought were fought again, and all 

 the problems of the past, present and future were 

 soundly settled, at least for the night. 



Indeed it is not too much to say that out of these 

 annual interchanges of ideas, confidences and ex- 

 periences, out of the spirit of good-fellowship and 

 mutual respect that flowed from these impromptu 

 gatherings, and from the touch of opposing steel 

 at the show itself, there ultimately grew that spirit 

 of fraternity and equality that today is such a 

 marked and happy feature of contemporary cattle 

 breeding. 



"All for one, and one for all," the motto of the 

 "Three Guardsmen," has finally come to be the 

 slogan of those who, far removed from those early 

 scenes of bitter showyard strife, now draw their 

 chairs together each December at the Saddle and 

 Sirloin Club, and thank the fates that they are allies 

 in a common cause — no longer enemies. 



