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Anxiety; the showing interfered much with his work 

 in the herd. His early death had naturally not been 

 anticipated. As it was he left but twelve calves in 

 the herd. Of these, probably the best were the bulls 

 Anxiety 4th 2947 (not to be confused with the Eng- 

 lish-bred Gudgell & Simpson bull of same name), 

 and Anxiety 5th 2948. The former was out of imp. 

 Cherry 24th and was sold to Mr. Culbertson's old 

 friend Mr. Frank Parmelee, the omnibus magnate, 

 who had a farm on the Des Plaines Eiver near Chi- 

 cago. 



In a letter written to the author in 1897 Mr. Cul- 

 bertson said: 



"Anxiety was a particularly good getter of bulls 

 rather than heifers, which bulls in turn were 

 progenitors of show stock of both sexes. Dying as 

 he did one year after coming over I got but twelve 

 calves from him (seven bulls and five heifers), so 

 that he scarcely had a fair trial in this country. 

 Tempted by large prices I parted with the heifers 

 and several bulls when yearlings. Two other bulls 

 were lost to record on going to great ranches in the 

 west. Mr. Earl's Anxiety 6th never did much, but 

 Parmelee 's Anxiety 4th 2947 and VanNatta's Anxi- 

 ety 5th 2948 proved potent factors in the upbuilding 

 of the reputations of those herds. 



"Anxiety's greatest sons, however, were Clark's 

 Anxiety 3d 4466 (alias Sir Gamett) and Gudgell & 

 Simpson's Anxiety 4th 9904, both imported and 

 both from Longhoms dams. My imp. Prettyface 

 5735, by Anxiety 2238, had likewise a Longhoms 

 dam, and the bull himself being by Longhorns 

 shows a happy *nick' in that inbreeding and cross- 

 ing, as was the case with The Grove 3d-Spartan 



