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to other stocks, and it was the interest, whatever might be 

 the indination of the many breeders who had it not, to assume 

 lu'gh ground for the pure blood, and to depreciate the alloy. 

 Under these circumstances, what said public opinion, unequivo- 

 cally certified by the stroke of the auctioneer's hammer?" And 

 with this flourish of trumpet, he then proceeds (in Youatt,) lo 

 give an illustrated portrait of one of his own cows, a descendant 

 of this celebrated "Lady I" Youatt, in a quiet foot-note to 

 Berry's account, rather rebukingly says: "As the grandson of 

 Bolingbroke is not known to have been the sire of any other 

 remarkably good animal, it is most probable that the unquestion- 

 able merit of Lady and her descendants, is to be attributed more 

 to her dam than to her sire." This must be so, as "Phoenix," 

 the dam of Lady, was one of the best cows of her day, and the 

 dam of "Favorite," — (252) Coates' Herd Book — perhaps the 

 very best bull of his time. He was the sire of Gomet, who 

 brought at the sale, the unprecedented sum of 1,000 guineas — 

 $5,000. (Cattle of all kinds were enormously high at that time 

 in England, — war times — and at this sale of CoUing's, the short- 

 horns sold at higher rates than ever known before or since, until 

 Lord Ducie's sale in 1853.) The names and pedigrees of those 

 bulls, O'CaUaghan's "Son of Bolingbroke," and "Grandson of 

 Bolingbroke," will be found in Coates' English Herd Book, 

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Now, this is the falsehood, plausibly told by Berry in Youatt's 

 bistory, and which has since been adopted as authority, both in 

 England and America, and drawn upon by many subsequent 

 ivriters in both countries, who did not know any better — and 

 •eported a thousand times, until half the world believe it — that 

 nakes the ''improved" modern race of short-horns originate 

 rom a bull of the "old Teeswater stock," and a "Galloway 

 ;owl" when in truth, scarcely a particle of Galloway blood runs 



