198 Saddle and Sirloin. 



His brother Robert, who went more into Leicesters, 

 often said that there was nothing much better than 

 another in Charles's herd unless it might be the 

 Phoenix tribe. Mr. Thomas Booth, whose Shorthorn 

 career dates from his residence at Studley, A.D. 1790, 

 hired Ben and Twin Brother to Ben, and he bought 

 Albion at Charles Ceiling's sale, and Pilot at Robert's. 

 Pilot was rather small, and old breeders tell us that 

 the sight ot the Young Albion cows at Studley in Mr. 

 Richard Booth's day is one of which they have never 

 seen the equal.* 



Warlaby does not rank very high in the British 

 census, and a few cottages, which hardly rise into the 

 dignity of a street, and three farm houses besides Mr. 

 Booth's, compose " the tottle" of a village the sound of 

 whose name has passed into every beef and mutton 

 land, with Babraham and Holmpierrepont. Mr. 

 Booth's farm flanks the road to Borough-bridge on 

 each side, arable on the right, and nurse cows and 

 bullocks, some of them with two or three Warlaby 

 crosses, on the left, and extends for nearly a mile up 

 the grass vale of the Wiske. On a clear day you can 

 see the " Minster ;" but so they say in almost every 

 part of Yorkshire we have been in yet. Still there is 

 no doubt, when you are in the High Field, that you 

 can command the whole range of the Hambleton Hills, 

 so* suggestive of Mameluke, Kingston and Velocipede ; 

 of the distant range of Cleveland ; of the White Mare 

 of Whissencliffe ; and of Roseberry Topping, which is 



* Leonard was a nice little bull with great loins and well-sprung 

 ribs, but rather strong in the horn. Buckingham was a fair-sized bull, 

 a little forward in the shoulders, and with a great inclination to lay 

 on flesh. In shape Baron Warlaby excelled him, but he was rather 

 too long, and Mr. Wetherell was wont to say that he should like to put 

 him into a lemon-squeezer and reduce him a size. Vanguard was a 

 bull of great size with a rare loin and back ; Hopewell with his curly 

 scorp was not so good-looking ; and Harbinger was a short-legged, 

 thrifty fellow, with an almost unrivalled power of getting his stock all 

 alike. 



