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round it, and thus open up a complete communica- 

 tion between the byre and the dung-heap. The 

 pigs which revel there, when they are let out from 

 the sties which face due south, are principally small 

 white Wenlocks crossed with Wainman boars ; and 

 a wreckJing was at nurse in " the bait" house, and 

 trembling with anxiety and emotion when the teapot 

 wtts presented. Among the foals in the boxes was a 

 bay filly, the living image of Champion of the good 

 old Shacabac, Fireaway, and Phenomenon blood. 

 Vesta's last legacy, a red bull, was in the calf-house, 

 where Forth' s deep flesh was transmitted to a white 

 son ; and there was the first dividend, another roan 

 heifer, out of the 235-guinea "Another Eoan 

 Duchess." The calves are all brought up by 

 pail, and have two Scotch pints of new milk 

 night and morning, and after the first month (when 

 they run in the paddock if fine), boiled linseed 

 is given them in their milk, and oilcake with bruised 

 grain or bean meal at mid- day. The milk is taken 

 off at the end of four months, and the linseed gruel 

 continued. 



There is nothing peculiarly decorative about the 

 buildings, with the exception of the tower, but de- 

 vices and mottoes have been applied with no niggard 

 hand. Each department bears an emblem of its con- 

 tents in stone ; and hence a stranger wandering only 

 round the outside can get all the bearings exactly. 

 A horse's head for which neither Clyde, Young 

 Champion, Darkie, nor Audubon, son of Bird catcher, 



