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Necklace, Bracelet, Birthday, Pearl, Gem, Manta- 

 lina, Venus. Victrix, and Soldier's Nurse were once 

 calves in the lambing paddock, and Dickey Leyfield 

 presided over their fortunes. Hecuba was the matron 

 of the herd at the time of our visit, and Forest Queen 

 and four more daughters roamed the Park with her, 

 while Brigade Major, by Valasco from Soldier's 

 Nurse ; Knight Errant, by Sir Samuel from Vivan- 

 diere ; Lord Albert, by Lord of the Valley from 

 Dora, by Windsor ; and Merry Monarch, by Lord of 

 the Valley, from Lady Mirth, made up the bulls at 

 hire. 



When the Brothers Colling retired from Shorthorn 

 life, the Booth family gradually filled their place. 

 Charles Colling lived quietly at Croft after his sale, 

 but he was a slovenly farmer by all accounts. He was 

 wont to think rather mournfully of his old triumphs 

 and to say, " If I had only my eyesight perfect and the 

 use of my fingers, I should not despair of a new herd? 



until every effort had been made in vain to get a master that Mr. J. B. 

 Booth consented to undertake that office, with Mr. H. F. C. Vyner, 

 Mr. J. Hutton, Col. Straubenzee, and Mr. Bruere as his co-guarantors. 

 Mr. Booth thereupon bought 33 couple of the old pack for the country, 

 and sufficient funds were raised, in reply to a circular announcing that 

 fact, to pay for the hounds and some drafts from other kennels, as well 

 as to lay down some new gorses. Foxes have of late years been short, 

 more especially in the Hutton Moor and Hornby Castle covers ; but the 

 Master and his huntsman Carr have shown a great deal of good sport 

 under circumstances of considerable difficulty. There is no finer scent- 

 ing ground in England than that part of the Bedale North of the Swale, 

 from Catterick Bridge to Morton Bridge, with Uckerby, Pepper Hall, 

 Kiplin, and Cowton Whin as its favourite covers, and although some 

 people complain of its being "all plough," still those who rode from 

 Kiplin to Middleton Tyas Quarries on Jan. 2Oth, 1868, thought that 

 " the Bedale ladies" were quite fast enough for any country. The south 

 or Ripon side of the country is more open and easier to ride ove% but 

 does not hold so good a scent as a rule ; whilst the west side, Hipswell, 

 Hauxwell, Leyburn, &c., has more grass and frequently affords some 

 good runs, though the country is very rough and hilly. The runs of 

 Nov. 6th, 1867, from Hunton Moor (Thornhill's Whin) to Bolton Hall 

 and back to Leyburn (where they killed) ; and of April 1 8th, 1868, 

 from Scorton with a kill at the Richmond Paper Mills both of them 

 over 2$ hours will long be memorable ones. 



