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Chillingham, he puzzled for minutes as to how on earth 

 his lordship ever intended him to catch them and 

 bring them into ring, before he guessed the joke and 

 its author. These two, with Torr, Philip Skipworth, 

 and Hugh Watson judged a great deal in Ireland to- 

 gether, and had a very memorable trip to Athlone. 

 At every town they came to, Mr. Booth put it about, 

 and the post-boys aided him, that Mr, Wetherell, who 

 occupied the box-seat in portly state, was O'Connell. 

 Thousands of the Irish had never looked on the great 

 agitator's face and quite believed it ; and then in his 

 turn Mr. Booth found that he was believed to be Tom 

 Steel. As for poor old Philip, they primed a gipsy 

 woman and set her on him, and she told his fortune and 

 many little Aylesby matters with such marvellous 

 accuracy, that he was very glad to give her half-a- 

 crown to get rid of her. Mr. Booth judged a great deal 

 in England, and never went for great size either in a bull 

 or a cow. As a man of fine, steady judgment in a cattle 

 ring, he has perhaps never had an equal. Gem, which 

 died calving as a two-year-old heifer, was his model 

 for compactness, beautiful hair, and fine, even quality 

 of flesh ; Hope was his type of a thick loin and heavy 

 flesh ; and he thought Hamlet the best bull he ever 

 bred. He died in 1857, after a weary twelvemonths' 

 illness, in his seventieth year, at Killerby, and a me- 

 morial window at Catterick, where he rests, was put 

 up by his friends and neighbours and the -Shorthorn 

 world as well.'* 



Bainesse, one of the grandest farms in the North 

 Riding, lies between that little town and Killerby, and 

 on the left is that loi-acre field, out of which, when it 

 was all in swedes, the late Duke of Leeds, a friend, 



* At his sale (Sept. 21, 1852), the 44 lots averaged 4.8/. I2s. Sd. 

 Bloom (no guineas, Mr. Ambler), Birthright (105 guineas, Mr. 

 Douglas), Pearly (105 guineas, Mr. Eastwood), and Hamlet (66 

 guineas, Mr. E. Bate), were amongst them. Wide Awake and Fare- 

 well (Mr. Emmerson) averaged 154 guineas. 



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