156 Saddle and Sirloin. 



The specialty of the Cleveland Show, when it was 

 held at Yarm, proved to be the fox terriers. On our 

 way down we tried in vain to impress upon a man, 

 whose Twitch and Viper and Myrtle were as fat as 

 guinea pigs, that the small and smooth whites were 

 the only orthodox sort, and that he must banish hope. 

 Of course he wouldn't have it. His dogs had Lamb- 

 ton and Fitzwilliam blood in them, and the former 

 " wur always hairy." That didn't convince us, so he 

 urged that " the Hurworth have been glad enough, 

 time upon times, to send for yon dog's grandfather to 

 get a fox out for them," and " as for his dam, she's 

 been painted ten times over." However, the owner of 

 the trio and sundry other vagrant professors of fox 

 drawing took nothing by their journey. One Peeping 



to whether he should buy on that day ; but the bitter complaints of some 

 Gloucestershire farmers, who shared his waggon, as to the Americans 

 getting Duchess 59th fired him into action at last. He accordingly bid 

 200 guineas for the twentieth lot, Duchess 64th, but it was hardly 

 taken, and his 400 guineas was soon left in the rear by the Trans- 

 atlantic rivals. He did not touch the 7oo-guinea Duchess 66th, but 

 Duchess 67th, the fifteen-months' heifer by Usurer out of Duchess 59th 

 (the highest-priced female at the Kirklevington sale), fell to his nod for 

 350 guineas, and then Duchess 7<Dth by Duke of Glo'ster (11,382), out 

 of Duchess 66th, followed suit for 310 gs. She was only a trifle over 

 six weeks, and the Americans had no idea of leaving her ; but as one of 

 them said afterwards, it was " the way in which that other bidder said 

 * and ten guineas ' almost before my bidding was out of my mouth, 

 that made me falter and give in. " It was with these two and Duchess 

 6gth by 4th Duke of York, whom he afterwards bought privately at 

 nine months for 500 guineas from Mr. Tanqueray, that Major Gunter 

 commenced his herd. Duchess 67th was sent at a 25-guinea fee to 4th 

 Duke of Oxford, and Duchess 69th to Mr. Tanqueray's Duke of Cam- 

 bridge, who was afterwards so famed at Fawsley, and Duchess 72nd 

 and Archduke were the respective results. His next purchase was the 

 6th Duke of Oxford at Hendon, for 200 guineas, and his dam Oxford 

 nth for 500 guineas more, when she was just four years old. He 

 originally intended to have bought the Duke of Cambridge ; but Mr. 

 Strafford's glass ran out in favour of the Fawsley baronet, who, strange 

 to say, had his eye rather on the 6th Duke of Oxford. Lord Fever- 

 sham had shown his opinion of 5th Duke of Oxford by giving 300 

 guineas for him as a five months' calf at Tortworth, and he won at 

 Chester and Northallerton. 



