196 Saddle and Sirloin. 



and his grace's head -keeper, killed 126 brace of par- 

 tridges in two days. The Hornby coursing meeting 

 generally began hard by Killerby park gate, and Lar- 

 riston won his first course for the Cup in the 33-acre 

 " Jack Close." Mr. Booth was very fond of the sport, 

 and had a capital dog " Nips," which v/on the Wens- 

 leydale Cup at Leyburn. 



There are two roads across the park, in which 

 thorns and wild cherry trees dear to starlings and 

 thrushes as well as cherry brandy lovers abound ; 

 and walnut trees and pink chestnuts from Holderness 

 flank the road on the Catterick side. One of the 

 thorns recalls the fate of Bracelet, whose thigh was 

 broken by a cow jumping on her as she sheltered 

 beneath it. She bred again, but became so hopelessly 

 lame that she was slaughtered. Necklace was made 

 up and won the gold medal at Smithfield. She had 

 only one heifer, Jewel, the dam of the famous Jeweller, 

 who, crossed with the Barmpton Rose tribe, built up 

 the Towneley herd. The present Mr. John Booth's 

 tastes take the same double-barrelled range as his 

 father; and Jeweller, Beechwood, Vaulter, Ballet 

 Girl, Brigadier, Brian Borue, Bannagah, Bird of Pas- 

 sage, and British Queen all attest his showyard 

 prowess, with more than threescore of first hunter 

 prizes alone. The raw material, Sister to Bird of 

 Passage, own sister to British Queen, a Cavendish two- 

 year-old, and a Young Dutchman foal were all in the 

 Park, and there too was Becky Sharpe in foal to 

 The Drake again. In the stable were Beacon, the 

 grey which has carried his present owner for ten 

 seasons, and only once come to grief, Brilliant, and 

 four other useful adjutants of the Bedale Hunt, of 

 which Mr. Booth has been for three seasons master.* 



* Foxes became so scarce in the best part of the Bedale country that 

 it was some time before a successor could be found to the present Earl 

 of Feversham, when his lordship ceased to be master in 1867. It was not 



