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awa', my wee doddies J" he says ; and even if they 

 had not been hand-fed, they could not resist such 

 blandishments. " Thirty ewes and their production" 

 compose the Leicester flock, which is principally a 

 cross between Lord Polwarth's and Mr. Cockbunr's 

 of Sisterpath. The "production" had been 51 from 

 .26 that season; and each year the tups go to the 

 Edinburgh tup sale, or are sold at home. In the 

 best year so far, twenty-two of them without the fleece 

 averaged 5 15s. 4d. Thanks to the shelter and high 

 feeding, Mr. Barclay calculates the fleece of the ewe 

 hoggs at lOlbs., the ewes at 81bs., and the tup hoggs 

 at lllbs. The very sheds are worked on a regular rota- 

 tion, and when the calves have done with them, the 

 hoggs take their place, and eat turnips under shelter 

 in the frosty nights. The same sort of scene-shifting, 

 but of a more elaborate character, takes place in the 

 stables, which are large enough for a master of 

 hounds ; and with merely a manger alteration and a 

 chain-pole, they help out the byres in the winter. 

 There are about forty old and young in the herd ; 

 and Captaiu Gtmter's Northern Duke by Duke of 

 Wetherby, and Mr. Bruere's Baron Booth by Prince 

 George, have been purchased as the representative 

 bulls of Bates and Booth. 



Faith occupied a capital loose box made up by the 

 union of two stalls, and the long and low Prudence 

 looked as beautiful (though of course small in her 

 horse-stall setting) as Little Lady, when that artistic 

 light, in which Lord Stamford delighted, was 



