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the feeding qualities, he lost some of the milking ones. I have 
travelled somewhat, as it were, out of my road to dwell on the 
character of Bakewell, because no history of Longhorns would 
be complete without a notice of what I may justly term their 
great high priest, and also because he stands out in such bold 
I relief from the yeomen of his day. To read of his doings, 
' one might well fancy that he had been born in the age of the 
steam-engine and electric telegraph. Not long ago I chanced to 
be in the neighbourhood of Dishley, and turned aside to see the 
grave of the man who had done so much for the peaceful industry 
of his country. I found it in the little, unused, and dilapidated 
church close to the Grange, where his princely hospitality was 
dispensed, now only a common dovecote and building-place for 
the fowls of the air. 
Bakewell's cattle have been kept in remembrance chiefly by 
the bull " Twopenny " before mentioned, and the oft-recorded fact 
of his cow " Comely," the founder of some of his choicest strains, 
having 4 inches of fat on the sirloin when killed at the great 
age of twenty-six years. 
Coeval with, if not anterior to, Bakewell's celebrity as a 
breeder, was the foundation of the Upton herd by Mr. Chapman, 
which, when it was dispersed in 1873, was supposed to be the 
oldest herd of Longhorns in the kingdom ; and I believe I may 
say still is, as Mr. R. H. Chapman continues a few of the sort 
on his farm at St. Asaph, North Wales. In this early day 
it had attained such excellence that Bakewell himself pro- 
' nounced it as good as any herd in the kingdom, and they 
soon had a dip into his blood, having hired " Twopenny " 
I for a time. Nearer neighbours to him were Buckley, who 
boasted that the bone of the leg of niutton on one of his 
improved Leicesters was no bigger than the stem of a tobacco 
pipe, and those who also lived on the north side of the Forest 
were Stone and Farrow ; on the south were Knowles, Astley, 
and Paget, besides Chapman. Perhaps the greatest amount of 
j notoriety, after Bakewell's, was gained by Mr. Fowler, of Roll- 
right, in Oxfordshire, who commenced like him with Canley 
blood, and hired " Twopenny." He, however, set the seal to 
( the fortune of his herd when he purchased " D," a grandson of 
' " Twopenny," and a very inbred bull, from Dishley. This bull 
was the sire of " Shakespeare," who was sold at Mr. Paget's sale 
at Ibstock, in November, 1793, for 400 guineas. Like Bakewell, 
• Fowler stuck much to his own sort, and in his later days, at any 
rate, did not go from home for his sires. Another similarity to 
Bakewell was his aversion to selling his cattle, and no offer, it 
mattered not how handsome, made for his cows or heifers, so long 
as they continued prolific, could his friends prevail on him to 
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