300 Saddle and Sirloin. 



had been a judge, I'd not have given that pig a prize 

 at all, at all." " Don't bother yourself," retorted Mr. 

 Fisher, " you never will be a judge at all, at all ;" and 

 the critic retired without having the best of it. Irish 

 pig-leaders are most unremitting in their blundering 

 efforts to square the judges. " Give us a prize !" said 

 one, nudging a friend of ours as he entered the yard ; 

 " by my sowle, you'll know the pig again, anyhow ; 

 he's got a big scratch with a nail on his back." 



The large breed of boars are very difficult to make 

 up for show. Smaller ones sleep more, but their big 

 brothers should live in solitude, as they hear and smell 

 each other, and are always on their legs champing. 

 Silverhair, from Mr. Unthank's (of Cumberland) sort, 

 crossed with King of the West, a Watson boar, began 

 the Carhead small breed, and Silverwing, their beau- 

 tiful daughter, showed the light offal and short head 

 of that " silver" strain to perfection. She won nearly 

 thirty prizes " off malt-dust and turnips ;" but she 

 went at last both in the loins and the muscles of her 

 hams, and became lumpy, as pigs will do when they 

 are brought out over and over again. King Cube, her 

 " constant pardner," as Mrs. Gamp observes, was also 

 by King of the West, and Mr. Wainman smoked many 

 a cigar over this beautiful pair, when he did not care 

 to look at anything else. Missing Link, Happy Link, 

 and the rest of the " Links," were of the middle breed, 

 and combined the size of the large breed with the 

 thriftiness and quality of the small, but there was no 

 keeping some of them within growth bounds. At 

 Lincoln, Mr. Torr would not allow that Missing Link 

 was of the small breed, and he placed her second. She 

 was afterwards the best middle-bred sow at Battersea, 

 and finally took the cup at Keighley, when she 

 weighed nearly forty stone. 



Mr. Wainman's greatest victory was at the Wor- 

 cester Royal, where he won eight firsts and a second. 

 In this year (1863), the Carhead pigs attended 33 



