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and he has to work harder than anybody else in 

 order to be taken seriously. The mere fact that 

 "DAVY" has a convulsing repertoire of songs and 

 stories does not lessen in the least the value of 

 his work in behalf of American live-stock hus- 

 bandry. His portrait is soon to be put in the place 

 where it belongs, by LEVERING'S side. 



JOHN GLAY is another one of the pillars of the 

 International Show. Scottish Borderer by birth, he 

 hails from that historic region where the Teviot's 

 "silver tide" is lost in "Tweed's fair river broad 

 and deep." He has spent many a strenuous winter 

 there in recent years raiding the red fox, one day 

 with the North Northumberland hounds, and on the 

 next riding hard and fast on the other side with 

 the Duke of Buccleuch's. In fact, he was master 

 of the first-named pack when the great clash of 

 arms put an end to the "mimic warfare of the 

 chase." Early in the organization of the Interna- 

 tional Show it was decided to bring out each year an 

 old-country judge to help place the prizes on our 

 Christmas cattle, and it has fallen to the lot of Mr. 

 CLAY and myself to extend these invitations. 



It is generally conceded that nothing has added 

 more to the dignity and the prestige of the Inter- 

 national than the bringing out of these gentlemen 



