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grass on the burnside, the lintwhite and mavis singing in 

 the glen. 



True, we haye had Bonnets o' Blue, Flirtilla, Cassandra, 

 Lady Lightfoot, Peytona, Charmer, Idlewild, Timoleon, 

 Pacolet, Gracchus all very good names, which cannot be 

 said of Creath, the pronunciation of which caused almost 

 as much discussion in this country as the famous Ilionea 

 controversy did in England ; Joe Blackburn, Geo. M. 

 Patchen, Bed Bill, Hornblower, Bed Oak, &c. 



How happy Peytona must have been, when her name 

 was changed from Glumdalclitch to the proud one the 

 winning of the $150,000 stake entitled her to wear. Un- 

 der the former she never could have beaten the peerless 

 Fashion, that vindicated her claim to be the top of the 

 mode by re-conquering the Victrix, after being in a "little 

 better fix." 



PUPIL. I am well pleased to find that others have been 

 giving this matter thought as well as myself, and when we 

 come to the babies I have brought to commence their 

 schooling, will be much obliged to have you assist me in 

 giving them names they may wear with honor to them- 

 selves and pleasure to us. This lengthy bay mare I sim- 

 ply call Jane. Her life, like Never Mind's, has not been 

 one of strange vicissitude, but a sameness of bad manage- 

 ment that would have made human subjects incorrigible. 

 Wlien I first got her, it was claimed she was by Glencoe, 

 her dam by Bertrand, the mother of Andy Burt. Her 

 glossy silken coat, strong muscular development, and 

 high life, corroborated the statement ; but her eyelids 

 are heavy, her pasterns short, her shoulders rather too 

 upright, while her inane and tail has a wave, almost a 

 curl, that always caused me to doubt the truth of this as- 

 sertion, and on making inquiry found that on her mother's 

 si ie alone she could claim aristocratic lineage. 



In a conversation with Mr. Frank Harper, of Midway, 



