468 Longhorn Cattle : their Histori/ and Peculiarities. 
had secured the celebrated Rollright bull "Washington" from 
Michael Buckley, who three years before had given 215/. 15s. 
for him at Fowler's sale ; and a great deal of stock by him then 
came to the hammer. From the time of Mr. Prinsep's sale in 
1811, when an average of 61 guineas was reached for 60 lots of 
all ages, we learn little more of the private history of Long- 
horns until more recent years. The next incident of any note 
unconnected with the showyard is the sale by Mr. Brown, to 
the Hon. M. W. B. Nugent, of Higham Grange, near Hinckley, 
brother to the Earl of Westmeath, of the following cattle : 
The "Shakespeare" bull, 127Z. ; "Young Garrick" bull, 77/.; 
Prinsep cow, 92/. 15s.; Prinsep stirk, 42/. 17s.; "Dumplin" 
stirk, 42/. 17s. ; " Cherry" cow, 100/. : an average of 82/. 8s. 2(1. 
for the six in April 1841. Mr. Brown, whose herd was founded 
very early in the present century, won seven 10/. silver cups, 
and three 5/. cups, at the old Staffordshire General Agricultural 
Society's Show, held at Lichfield about 55 years ago, with his 
Longhorns, when competing with Herefords, Shorthorns, and 
Devons, the different classes often numbering as many as 20 entries 
in each class. This was from about the year 1813 to 1820 ; and 
prizes were also taken by this herd at the Royal Shows held at 
Derby and Shrewsbury. This Mr. Brown used a bull named 
" Washington," by Mr. Meek's " Washington," out of Mr. 
Prinsep's " Brindled Beauty," from 1808 to 1812. It is re- 
corded, that about the latter year the noted Hereford breeder, 
Mr. J. Price, challenged the Longhorn men to an exhibition of 
20 cows, for the sum of 100/. a-side, to be decided at the Lich- 
field Agricultural Society's Show. Mr. Meek accepted the 
challenge, and the verdict was given in favour of the Herefords. 
Lichfield appears to have been a great centre for Longhorns at 
this time, as it is within a few miles of Croxall, made so famous 
by the name of Prinsep. Mr. Brown's son turned his attention 
more to dairy than Show stock, and a sale of his herd during 
the present year I shall have to notice further on. 
There is one other Longhorn hero I must, however, revert to, 
and that is the bull " Tiger," of whom tradition avers that he 
was sold for the enormous sum of 700 guineas. Who bred him, 
when or where he was calved, or at what period, I have never 
been able to learn ; which is all the more strange as, to make such 
a figure, he must not only have been a very good bull himself, 
but must also have had a distinguished ancestry, as it is not to 
be presumed that people in those days threw their money away on 
cattle of inferior blood more than they do at present. But a 
Longhorn Coates was sadly wanted ; and though in some herds 
the genealogical tree has been pretty correctly kept, in others it 
has been either altogether neglected or lost. 
I have said that there was little to be learnt of the private 
