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race walk, if they could know when Jack Parker and 

 the Sinnington intend to call ; and although the 

 hounds are merely collected the night before, and drop 

 off one by one after hunting to their farm settlements, 

 till Jack is a mounted general without an army, they 

 can account for twenty brace a season. 



The Trafalgar Column, which the first lord reared 

 to the hero of immortal memory, towers above the 



pioneers of hollow draining in Yorkshire. On his father's death in 

 1805, Moss wood was handed over to a half-brother, and Mr. Wiley 

 entered on Brandsby. With his shorthorns, which number about forty 

 head, he has adopted the safe old rule of never refusing a likely offer 

 when he can get it ; and hence, except when he had something very 

 much out of the common, he has never held for the mere chances of the 

 show-yard. 



The blood of Comet was at fever-heat in the market when he hired 

 his first bull in 1814, and Mr. Wright of Cleasby (one of the joint pur- 

 chasers of the thousand-guinea wonder) found a youthful Lubin (388) 

 exactly to suit him. Adonis, another son of Comet, from Beauty, and 

 bred by Charles Colling, did him such good service the two next seasons, 

 that he followed him up with his own brother, Jupiter (343), and the 

 succession was kept alive by North Star (459) and Harold (291), which 

 were sent home when Robert had his sale in 1818. Two years before 

 that, Mr. Wiley had bought Mida from the Rev. Thomas Vaughan, of 

 Houghton, near Darlington, and the strain pleased him so much that 

 he bore off her sire Midas (435) in his tenth year hi the Barmpton ring, 

 after a tough rally with Sir William Cooke, for 270 guineas, and a 

 yearling heifer from Trinket as well. The money which was laid out 

 on this tribe has never been a source of regret, as Grazier (1085), by 

 Midas, more than brought it back. Old Anna's, of Helmsley, is not 

 the only tongue which has waxed eloquent in the ancient red's behalf. 

 Sir John Johnstone, of Hackness, used him for three seasons, and when 

 Lord Feversham, Mr. Smith of West Razen, Mr. Slater of North 

 Carlton, and Mr. Wiley himself had all dipped pretty deeply into him, 

 he ended his days at fourteen at Byram Hall. Ganthorpe (2049), of the 

 Castle Howard herd, in which he was used, was one of his principal 

 sons, and he was in his turn the sire of Malibran, for whom her breeder, 

 Mr. Henry Edwards, got 300 guineas. Mr. Whitaker of Greenholme's 

 blood was also introduced at Brandsby, both through His Highness 

 (2125), own brother to the 2io-guinea Highflyer at. the Chilton sale, and 

 Abernethy (1602). Sultan (1485), for whose ancestress, Mary, General 

 Simpson gave 300 guineas to Charles Colling, was purchased from Mr. 

 William Johnson, after he had been extensively engaged in Northum- 

 berland in circulating what the borderers still fondly style "the good 

 old Jobson sort." The principal result of the one year's service which 

 be had out of him was Sultana ; and from her union with Belshazzar 



