230 THE PORTRAIT GALLERY 



Among the dozen calves that he sired was one from a two-year- 

 old heifer of moderate merit only, in which Mr. Cruickshank 

 discerned the divine spark. So enthusiastic was he in a cautious 

 Scot way that his brother Anthony bestowed on the young bull 

 the ambitious title of Champion of England. Unfortunately the 

 showyard did not agree with this judgment when he was pre- 

 sented in yearling form and only a detailed reexamination, point 

 by point, determined Mr. Cruickshank to keep him. With the 

 advent of his calves, the home appellation was justified, and for 

 the remaining days at Sittyton the problem in mating dealt 

 entirely with the concentrating of his blood. From the noble 

 array of show cows and matrons that were his daughters, Mimulus, 

 Morning Star, Violante, Victorine, Village Rose, Village Belle, 

 Princess Royal, British Queen, Carmine Rose, Silvery, Surmise, 

 and others, and the immortal Grand Monarque, Scotland's 

 Pride, Pride of the Isles, Royal Duke of Gloster, Roan Gaunt- 

 let, Caesar Augustus, Barmpton and Cumberland, all bulls 

 of the Champion of England stock, came the short-legged, broad 

 turned, quick maturing, matchlessly meated race that met his 

 "rent-paying" ideal. Sittyton became the deep flowing spring of 

 Shorthorn blood in the north, and from generation to generation 

 its overflow spread from one country to the other in its task of 

 regeneration and revivification of the earlier English strains. 



The limits of Sittyton service have not yet been realized. Thirty 

 years after the closing of that stern yet kindly eye, the blood it 

 so zealously watched over goes on to new achievements, and the 

 livelihood and fortune of new generations of breeders are builded 

 on the Cruickshank pedestal. The mind that recognized only 

 profitable attainment as the fundament of breeding ideals, has 

 set up a permanent standard in the land, the soul goes march- 

 ing on. 



