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gotten Emperor of Hindostan; we've six by him. 

 There's Lancaster 25th, with her son in the home 

 park, under the plane-trees, called sycamores in the 

 days of old. That's a neat little roan by English- 

 man out of Prudence. There's Platina, a white : 

 we've just enough whites; and we've got Royal 

 Errant, who beat the Royal Newcastle bull> for her, 

 and to help the white into red. The Duke was very 

 gracious about it. Royal Errant's bred like Blue 

 Belle from a Cardigan cow. 



"We'll get over into the next field. You jumped 

 those iron rails well for a family man, and yet you must 

 be tolerably stiff with all these peregrinations. Do you 

 ver sleep at all ? That's Lady Raglan, dam of Flower 

 of Spring. We'll just take the outside ones, and work 

 to a centre. Here's Sylph, one of Dudding's sort 

 one of the Sir Samuels, and second at Lincoln Show. 

 That's your old friend Prudence by High Sheriff: 

 you liked her in the stable last year. They've fat 

 backs, but they've only the pullings of the field and 

 good constitutions to digest them. This is Annie 

 Laurie. ' Come awa' } Annie /' She's a gay young 

 lady, as wild as a Highlander. Englishman and her 

 will make a fine cross. Faith's always by herself; 

 she would still be lonely at Mr. Sanday's. She 

 broke down on us with a premature bull-calf. We 

 hope better things of her : but she's all waves and hil- 

 locks to look at. Mr. Houseman can dissect her 

 down to a sixteenth part. He dissected her very 

 prettily a fortnight after we got her. He told us all 



