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sail, the first middle breed boar that ever took a Royal 

 prize, had a coat of hair eight and a half inches long, 

 and Mr. Wainman, who is a very keen fisher both on 

 the Wharfe and the Spey, was wont to dress his flies 

 with it. He was so proud of it, that he kept a per- 

 petual sample of this porcine Esau in his pocket-book. 

 If " Wassail's" hair was the best, Fresh Hope beat 

 everything for bulk ; as when she was sold for 20 

 guineas and yielded up her hams to the slaughter, they 

 weighed 94lbs. each. Those who descended to view 

 these salted remains in the cellar, declared that but 

 for their being " nearly all real sandwich meat," they 

 might have pertained to a hippopotamus. For thick- 

 ness of hide, no pig came up to Carhead Duke. It 

 was found that it would only do for blacksmiths' 

 aprons ; but as it would not make three, and only cut 

 up to waste for two, it was converted into a partition 

 wall for a tap-room at Keighley. In that position it 

 is made the text of much sound pig doctrine, and is 

 always alluded to with the deepest respect. 



Arch Trespasser was only beaten once, and ap- 

 peared at the Royal in three different characters. At 

 one year he was the small breed ; at two years old, 

 the middle, and at three years old, the large : and no 

 general or special demurrer was lodged. He died at 

 last of tumour in the chest, and was buried six feet 

 deep in the Carhead stack garth, with a silver " perfect 

 cure" ring in his nose. It has no legitimate hall mark, 

 seeing that Mr. Fisher invented it, and it will give the 

 Yorkshire archaeologists some trouble as to its date 

 and use, if a century hence they hold a picnic in Aire- 

 dale with their pickaxes, and invade this good boar's 

 barrow. One of his journeys was to. the Royal Irish 

 show at Clonmel, where he took the gold medal as 

 the best boar in all the classes. The Earl of Kim- 

 berley, the then Lord-Lieutenant, was looking at him 

 with his suite, when an outraged Paddy planted him- 

 self at his lordship's elbow, and said, " An ' sure if I 



