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traceable in the Shovvyards of the last twenty years to a won- 
derful extent ; but it did not originate in him, his sire, " Sir 
David," having manifested that extraordinary impressiveness 
which "Sir Benjamin" and "Sir Thomas" inherited, those 
bulls happening to be from dams whose influence harmonised 
with, and tended to perpetuate, that of " Sir David." These 
three bulls have become the progenitors of a very large propor- 
tion of the best Herefords of the day, although the influence is 
not always strongest in the direct lines of inheritance, and not 
in all cases undiluted by active counter-influences. Another 
factor, and doubtlessly a powerful one, in the composition of 
" Archibald," is the " Royal " prize bull " Stanway," whose 
name appears in the pedigree of both sire and dam ; and there 
is a dash also of the " Von Moltke " strain, well known in the 
Showyard not many years ago. Lord Bateman's third-prize 
bull " Charlton " is a son of " Grateful," from a dam by a son 
of " Stanway." 
" Archibald " has, as " Grateful " had, wonderful fore- 
quarters, full and heavy, of immense depth, the line of dew- 
lap, running from the throat to the under part of the brisket, 
literally sweeping the grass as he walks. His top-line, back- 
ward from where the neck joins the shoulder, is very straight, 
and if it is a trifle lower at the rear than it should be to keep 
proportion with the fore-end, it falls off evenly ; and perhaps 
if the hind-legs had less weight of flesh than they have to sup- 
port, they would raise the hind-quarters just enough to make 
the proportion true. His head is not quite so pleasant to look 
upon as " Grateful's," but it has a character of its own, and is 
easily remembered and recognised. 
Excellent as "Archibald" is in nearly all the points which 
constitute a first-rate Show bull, some tastes would give the 
preference as a stock-sire to the Earl of Coventry's " Fisher- 
man," the second-prize bull, whose son, Mr, J. S. Gibbons' 
" Tinker," bred at Croome Court, has the reserved number. 
Both these bulls have much masculine bigness of muscle, and 
" Tinker," a good lengthy bull, in not very high condition, has 
time and room to develop still more a resemblance, already 
recognisable, to his noble-looking sire. " Fisherman," not so 
nearly perfect as "Archibald," according to the requirements of 
the Show-ring, fills the eye grandly, as he is a large bull of 
immense substance, yet moves about as if by no means over- 
burdened by his flesh. As a younger bull he had, to a degree 
which the more generous development of maturer age somewhat 
lessens, the smoothly even surface so difficult to obtain in com- 
bination with great size ; the only variation from the almost 
perfect straightness of the upper outline was where the mus- 
