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. 
