1090 Hornless Ruminants. je 
Scottis.” They refer principally to the domestic relation, and | 
the twenty-first reads as follows: at 
4 
“ Quhen vncouth Ky fechtis amang thaym self, gif ane of thaym 
happenis to be slane, and vncertane quhat kow maid the slauchter, 
the kow that is homyll sall beir the wyte,” and the awnar thairoff 
sall recompens the dammage of the kow that is slane to his 
nychtbour.” 
“This,” says a commentator on the passage, “ certainly pro- 
ceeds on the supposition that the animal slain exhibits no marks 
of having been gored,” 
In Rev. Raphael Hollinshed’s work the passage is thus ren- 
dered: cht 
“If oxen or kine chance by running t er to kill one 
another, the truth being not known which it was that did the 
casion of the skeath, and he that is owner of the same, 
have the dead beast, and satisfie him for the losse to whom 
belonged.” "i 
The only comment to make is that the polled cattle of those 
days were credited with much vigor, and must have been very 
` numerous,’ 
a Dr. Norman Macleod's Legend—I\n the: beautiful l by ad 
Spirit of Eld,” given in his “ Reminiscences of a High 
ish,” “three dun hornless cows” are prominently mentioned, yi 
drawn in the accompanying illustration by Millais, This di 
color was, according to Youatt, the usual color of i High- 
landers’ “ fairy cattle.” The mention of “hornless py 
ee ry lore indicates a very early existence for pored © 
n - Polled Cattle on the Sculptured Stones of Meigle—The 8° 
~ these stones is given as dating from goo A.D. to 1000 A. 
-may be seen in the old school-house of Meigle. The T 
_ stone is figured in Plate LXXVII. of the sg a . 
A correspondent, Mr. William McCombie Smith, Per 
t For an illustration of the meaning of this, see “ The Breed 
Record,” by the author, p. 60 (Aldine Co., Detroit, Mich). 
instone’s Scottish Dictionary. 
