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•cular crest formed a segment of a circle between head and 
shoulder, with a gentle slope off, over the shoulder-top, into the 
dead level of the back ; and the side-lines, as he advanced or 
retreated, were round but not too sudden in the curve, showing 
sufficient depth as well as expansion of rib. Now, although 
nowhere abruptly patchy, he shows the gentle upheavals inci- 
dent to the age of six years in a bull of his flesh-making 
capabilities : his near presence is more imposing than it was 
three years ago, but his symmetry requires a longer focal dis- 
tance to be fairly judged. " Fisherman," by the direct male 
line, comes straight from " Walford," and is only fourth in 
descent from him, through " Franky," the famous sire of prize- 
oxen, ]Mr. Philip Turner's " Jupiter," and Mr. T. Rogers's 
*' Conservator ; " through " Jupiter's " dam and her sire, 
" Bolingbroke," he is a descendant of "Sir Benjamin;" and 
through two other tributaries he has the blood of " Sir Ben- 
jamin's " sire, " Sir David." Several other strains, long- 
established and of excellent reputation, intermingle with these. 
The level outlines so remarkable in " Fisherman " when 
about the same age, are reproduced in the first-prize bull of 
1881, " Good Boy," bred and exhibited by the Earl of Coven- 
try ; sire, " Fisherman," dam, " Giantess," bred by Mr. Tudge, 
by " Sir Roger." " Good Boy " has the " upstanding " cha- 
racter of his dam, and she "grew down to her legs,' i.e., 
deepened in body, as she advanced in life. He may do so too. 
Mr. Arkwright's " Rose Cross " (the second winner) and Mr. W. 
Tudge's "Prince Rose" (third prize) are respectively son and 
grandson of " Rosebud," the winner of at least two first prizes 
at the Royal Agricultural Society's Shows ; and " Conjuror," 
the sire of Mr. Arkwright's bull, has also won the Society's first 
honours. 
Mr. A. E. Hughes' " Washington," whose deep flesh quivers 
a little too much under the hand, indicating more outside fat 
than is necessary or desirable in a stock-bull, but whose surface 
is perfectly level (no sack of meal could be more so), has 
beautiful symmetry and character, and, as a son of the cele- 
brated " Rudolph " (now in America), represents a most illus- 
trious paternal line. A good son of " Lord Wilton," "Albany," 
exhibited by the breeder of "Archibald," and Mr. R. W. 
Bridgwater's thick-fleshed, robust-looking " Benefactor," of the 
longish, low-built stamp, are the other winners in the class. 
Two more of the sons of " Lord Wilton " — " Lord Grosvenor," 
from Stocktonbury, and " Hotspur," bred at Stocktonbury, but 
now the property of Mr. H. R. Hall, of Holme Lacey ; also 
*' Consul," bred by Mr. A. Rogers, and shown by the Earl of 
