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Royal prize at Worcester. He was bred by Mr. 

 Spraggon, of Nafferton, on the Tyne side ; but his 

 new owner marked him for his own as a calf, and but 

 for Forth, he would have taken first Scottish honours 

 as well. Since his day, a pair of Fowler's ten-horse 

 engines have been at work, and " torn up" some four 

 thousand acres, and Dream of Pretence and Golden 

 Link and Lady York are fast laying the foundations 

 of a second Carrhead hard by the Eastern seaboard. 



Mr. Samuel Donkin is not " bending in adoration 

 before the divinities of the sea-shore" to day ; but 

 Felton is all alive at his bidding, and as secretary of 

 its Agricultural Society, he " receives" both in a flower- 

 show marquee among the Castle Woods, and also in 

 the show-field. Thirteen gold cups won by Dr. 

 Syntax, XYZ, and Gallopade are ranged among the 

 flowers ; and if " Doctor" had only won the Preston 

 Cup at the last time of asking, four gold shoes would 

 have been added to that store. The sun shone bright 

 on a very animated show-field. Voyageur, the eternal, 

 was there, to the deep grief of the exhibitors of 

 hunters, for crab him as they may in private, judges 

 always had him handy at the finish. There was a fine 

 Colsterdale mare with first-prize ribbons on her head, 

 and just then all the more looked at for Lecturer's 

 sake. Littlecote, Gamester, and Canny Fellow foals, 

 and some very good ones among them, were grouped 

 with their dams all over the field, and there was many 

 a good word spoken to Gamester's memory, though 

 the Royal judges said that he " could neither walk nor 

 trot" on the day when he and Laughing Stock and 

 Cavendish were before them at Newcastle. Mr. Jacob 

 Wilson had a four-year-old grey hunter and a chestnut 

 " racing pony," and both won first prizes ; and (with 

 Golden Link and Lady York in aid) he and Mr. 

 Annett achieved so many honours that, after dinner 

 in the booth, one or the other seemed always on the 

 tramp to the chairman for cups or bank-notes. There 



