FIFTY YEARS OF A SHOWMAN'S LIFE 



pinch as though it were snuff, and always declared 

 it did him " a power of good. ? ' 



He was a ready and fluent speaker preferring 

 to trust to his voice, which served him well, 

 rather than to his pen, for the promotion of any 

 cause he had at heart. Nevertheless, he con- 

 tributed several good practical articles on his 

 favourite subject to the transactions of various 

 Societies. He was constantly being applied to 

 by landowners and various public bodies to 

 recommend them dairy assistants, for no one 

 knew better than he where to put his hand upon 

 what was wanted in this connection, and he had 

 the honour, which he greatly esteemed, of finding 

 dairymaids for both the late Queen Victoria and 

 King Edward VII. for their Windsor Dairy. He 

 was in universal demand as a judge of anything 

 and everything pertaining to dairying. Imple- 

 ments also came within his adjudicatory sphere, 

 whilst he was one of the judges of farms for the 

 Royal Agricultural Society in 1880. He was 

 Napoleonic in his ideas, and it was no easy task 

 to convince him in fact, you never did convince 

 him that there could ever be an insuperable 

 obstacle to the realization of anything upon 

 which he was bent. His natural hopefulness, 

 which represented an ever-trustful belief in possi- 

 bilities otherwise uncertainties rendered it im- 

 possible for him to take failure into his reckoning, 

 whilst it was equally difficult for him to conceive 

 of any financial limitations when his heart was 

 set upon what his brain had conceived. His 

 sanguine temperament chafed under official re- 

 straints, so we often agreed to differ, but it was 



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