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face, made him " so good to know." For twenty years 

 he kept the Boro' Bridge harriers, and showed excel- 

 lent sport. The Raby country then extended as far 

 as Boro' Bridge, and the Duke always charged him, 

 " If you find an outlying fox do your best to handle him 

 before he reaches a cover" He hunted both with the 

 Bedale and the Raby, and when either of the masters 

 appealed to him at a check : " Which way, Anthony ?" 

 the general reply was, " Overridden by those young 

 officers cast behind them" On hunting days he was 

 up at five, and rode over his six hundred acres before 

 breakfast, and then fifteen or sixteen miles to cover ; 

 and no man told better Yorkshire hunting tales over 

 a bottle of '20 port. He was one of the oldest short- 

 horn breeders in the kingdom, and we heard that his 

 herd numbered about 120 head at his death. To the 

 " Herd-book " he had been a contributor since its 

 commencement, and his numerous entries traced to 

 good and ancient families. 



Marton-le-Moor, a few miles from Ripon, was his 

 pleasant, old bachelor home. The handsome Crusade, 

 with a portrait of his owner and his herdsman, formed 

 a leading feature of the snuggery, and a large paint- 

 ing of " the best side of Comet " (as he did not fail to 

 tell you), held the place of honour in the dining-room. 

 A Yorkshire show-ring hardly looked itself without 

 " old Anthony " or Crofton inside it, and he was quite 

 regarded as a " chief justice " in shorthorn matters. A 

 more upright judge did not exist, but he had very 

 strong dislikes and " crotchets," and did not scruple 

 to express them when he was not on the bench. To 

 the Butterfly tribe he was never reconciled. The 

 Royal had his services as judge at Chester, in 1858, 

 and again at Leeds, in 1861 ; and he liked the busi- 

 ness so much, that, when he was verging on seventy, 

 he crossed the Channel to officiate at the Dublin 

 Spring, and proved himself in the possession of won- 

 derful " sea legs." In judging he generally gave more 



