“ONE-LEGGED” PEDIGREE
A LESSON FROM U.S.A. There is a lesson on pedigrees in a contribution by Mr. L. E. Scott to the “Rural New Yorker.” “I like best to buy a young bull and develop ft myself,” he writes. I Tike to purchase a male calf of good breeding from a reliable breeder. I want a well-balanced pedigree. I wouldn’t buy a breeding animal on the reputation of one or two ancient ancestors.’’ “Edward Bumpus,” one of Winston Churchill’s creations in the “Dwelling Place of Light,” was always boasting of “Ebenezer Bumpus.” His daughter asked him why he talked so much about that particular “Bumpus.” “Why not?” he asked. “Was he not a great man, and are we not descended from him?” “How many generations back?” she asked. “Seven,” he replied. Quick at figures, she asked, “Do you not know that you have 127 other ancestors of that generation, and that only 1.28 of you come from Ebenezer Bumpus?” Many a young bull has been sold because he was a great-grandson of some noted animal, the purchaser never stopping to think that the offspring had seven other great-grand-parents. This kind of a pedigree, I call a “one legged” pedigree.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 270, 4 February 1928, Page 27
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