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and variegated planes. The beautiful dish-head and 

 the Godolphin cresfc of Champion are laid low, to the 

 deep grief of Tom Liddle, after ten seasons ; and his 

 old box in " Clydesdale Lodge" (which has a large 

 high-walled yard attached to it for exercise) is filled 

 by a Clydesdale of the lighter sort, and fully a hand 

 less than Baronet by Hob Roy, who came from 

 Renfrewshire. In the home-field below, Dun- 

 can in his Scotch bonnet was leading the lengthy, 

 fme-loined and short-legged Eleventh Royal But- 

 terfly for his morning constitutional; and he might 

 well be proud of the office, for Towneley has bred 

 but two to compare with the high -mettled roan. The 

 little man totally despises poles, and manages his 

 400- guinea charge in all his caracoles with nothing 

 but a rope and a small cart-whip. The latter is in 

 strict keeping, as he always addresses him, either for 

 warning or encouragement, in strictly cart-horse 

 language. The capricious Master Groat and Knight 

 of the Border were not his peculiar charge; John 

 O ; Groat and his 150 Dutch stone he could mould like 

 wax ; on the eve of harvest festivals he has often taken 

 a nap in Forth' s box, and the bull only licked him 

 as he slumbered; but "The Royal'-' is not to be 

 trusted so implicitly, and therefore Duncan guides 

 his slumbers with discretion. 



There are only two John O'Groat's among the 

 herd which is grazing beneath us, and both of them 

 good to know from that peculiar mode of poking out 

 their heads, which they derived from the old bull. 



