CHAPTER IX. 



SOME YORKSHIRE SHORTHORNS. 



The late John Outhwaite — Bainesse Faem — The 

 Herd— Royal Windsor — Lord Godolphin and Vivan- 



DIERE AT THE YORKSHIRE — A PiG RaCE — JUDGING 



Horses — The Bainesse Sale — Mr. Hutchinson — 

 The Farm Prize — The Shorthorns — The ' Smith- 

 field' Cows — Border Leicesters— Leicester Sheep 

 — Jester — Hunters — Clydesdale and Shire Horses 

 — The late Mr. George Mann of Scawsby Hall — 

 Commencement of the Herd — Its Dispersal — Pig- 

 burn — The Rinderpest. 



A genial, huge, broad-shouldered Englishman, 

 A man of prize fat oxen and of sheeii. 



Tennyson. 



The mention of Yorkshire Shorthorns at once 

 calls to the memory of those who can look back 

 a few years the burly figure, genial countenance, 

 and quaint and humorous ' stories ' of the late 

 John Outhwaite of Bainesse. At every show of 

 importance he was always to be seen either out- 

 side the ring watching the proceedings with 

 marked interest, or inside it passing his judgment 



