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Watkins's Thormanby and Wiley blood, which he 

 brought back from Netherscales in his dog-cart. She 

 was crossed in due time with Earl Ducie's Liberator, 

 which proved a rare " nick," both for form and hand, 

 and did a good turn for the small Cumberland Whites. 

 Mr. Watson may be said to owe his heads and hams 

 to Liberator, and his backs to Thormanby, and to 

 make assurance sure, he had double crosses of the 

 sort. Miss West* was quite a prima donna among 

 sows at the Carlisle Royal ; but Faith (by Liberator, 

 out of the Unthank sow) was not only bigger, but 

 more level, and sweeter in the head. The former was 

 never beaten ; and if Mr. Watson could have war- 

 ranted her in pig, he might once have had upwards of 

 40 guineas for her. Faith, Hope, and Charity were 

 his first prize pen of sow pigs under six months at 

 Carlisle, and their names created some comment. 

 " And pray which of these three is Charity ?" said an 

 old lady, after duly adjusting her spectacles, and 

 taking a protracted survey of the pen. " Which is 

 Charity, marm ?" said the attendant, " of course the 

 biggest on 'em is Charity." " My dears," said the old 

 lady, turning to her daughters, " I never saw it just 

 put in that practical way before." Charity was found 

 at the Chelmsford Royal next year with the first prize 

 orange card over her head, and six pigs at the teat. 

 She had only pigged two days before she left Cum- 

 berland, and some of them were sold for ten and the 

 rest for fifteen guineas a piece. The journey knocked 

 her about considerably, and she was beaten soon after 

 by the Duke of Northumberland's sow at Cornhill. 

 " We," " Shall," " Win," was another sample of Mr. 

 Watson's neat nomenclature, and the three made 

 nearly 8o/. at Salisbury two years afterwards. Mr. 

 Fisher amplified the idea into "Advance Quality," 



* Miss West was by Liberator, dam by Jimmy from York. 



