454 Lonr/horn Cattle : their History and Peculiarities. 
accept. He always regretted the sale of three " Twopenny " 
heifers to Mr. Grey, of Toddington, and would have given the 
price of the three to get one of them, " The Painted Lady," 
back again, but the purchaser knew too well the value of what he 
had bought, and the offer was made in vain. Mr. Fowler also 
refused the then large price of a thousand guineas for three cows 
and a bull. At length, however, the time came when the herd was 
to be dispersed, an average of 80/. per head was realised, and 
eight cows made 151 guineas each, while the bulls sold as follows : 
« Garrick," by "Shakespeare," 215/. 5^. ; " Sultan," 220/. 10s. ; 
Washington," 220/. 5s. ; " Young Twopenny," 68/. 5s. ; and 
Young Garrick," 49/. 7s. Amongst the cows, " Young Brindled. 
Beauty," 2 years old, was sold for 66/. 3s. ; and " Young 
Beauty," a yearling, at 34/. 13s. ; while " Brindled Beauty " her- 
self went to the same purchaser at the strong price of 273/. 
Another cow, the dam of " Washington," made 194/. 5s. ; and 
•" Nell's Daughter," 136/. " Shakespeare " was let for two 
seasons to Mr. Prinsep at 80/. a season ; and that he was a very 
superior bull may be gathered from the following description of 
him by Marshall, in his ' Economy of the Midland Counties,' pub- 
lished 1790: " His head, chap, and neck, remarkably fine and 
clean ; his chest extraordinary deep ; his brisket down to the 
knees ; his chine thin, and rising above the shoulder points, 
leaving a hollow on each side behind them ; his loin narrow at 
the chine, but remarkably wide at the hips, which protruded in a 
singular manner ; his quarters long in reality, but appearing short, 
occasioned by a singular formation of the rump. At first sight 
it appears as if the tail, which stands forward, had been severed 
from the vertebrae by the chop of a cleaver, one of the vertebrae 
•extracted, and the tail forced up to make good the joint, an 
appearance which, on examining, is occasioned by some re- 
onarkable wreaths of fat formed round the setting-on of the tail, 
.a circumstance which, in a picture, would be deemed a de- 
formity, but as a point is in the highest estimation ; the round 
bones snug, but the thighs rather full and remarkably let down ; 
■the legs short, and their bone fine ; the carcase throughout (the 
•chine excepted), large, roomy, deep, and well-spread." This 
bull was by " D," out of a daughter of " Twopenny," so pf course 
very much inbred to that strain. 
Mr. Paget, of Ibstock, at whose sale "Shakespeare" made 400 
guineas, appears to have been a very noted breeder of this period, 
but unfortunately there is no record of his doings, save that he 
■charged 25 guineas a cow for the service of " Shakespeare.' ' But 
Mr. Prinsep, who leased the same bull for a couple of years, 
realised at his sale 303 guineas for a calf, and 620 for a cow ; so 
diat he stands quite in the first rank as regards returns, and I 
