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quite a Warlaby gathering on the occasion of a 

 neighbouring sale ; all the medals and prize cups were 

 set out in array, and not a few shorthorn men were 

 admitted for a hand shake to his inner room. Still 

 no hope was ever held out of his recovery ; and when, 

 two or three weeks before his death, he was obliged to 

 deny himself to all but his immediate relatives, the 

 word went through Yorkshire that that great change 

 was near for which his whole life had been one long 

 and earnest preparation. 



He was buried at Ainderby, within a short distance 

 of his home ; and was followed to his grave by up- 

 wards of four hundred gentlemen, and farmers, and 

 others who had known him in life. Owing to so few 

 at a distance being aware of his death, the attendance 

 of shorthorn breeders was almost entirely confined to 

 those of Yorkshire and Durham. Like the late Lord 

 Delamere and Turner the artist (whom he somewhat 

 resembled in figure), he had an especial dislike to 

 being painted, and how and when the little litho- 

 graphed sketch was taken, which some friends used to 

 show you by stealth, in his lifetime, we could never 

 exactly learn. His herd was left to his nephews and 

 nieces, and Mr. Thomas Booth took it at a valuation. 



Our remembrance of Warlaby and Killerby are 

 only of eleven years date. The two places are about 

 seven miles apart, and the route lies through Ainder- 

 by, where Velocipede adjourned from Whitewall and 

 " commanded" the country for some seasons. The 

 late Sir Maxwell Wallace had a word with our com- 

 panion as we passed his garden hedge, and, of course, 

 they got on to Bedale Hunt matters. A gamer man 

 than the old baronet never put on scarlet for the battle 

 or the bullfinch, and he was " blazing away" till he 

 had turned eighty and got a severe fall. Still even to 

 the last, he did not take to an old man's hack, but 

 steered .Rathconan, which had won the Howden 

 Steeplechase the year before. 



