302 Saddle and Sirloin. 



The seniors, as a fitting reward for their excellent sea 

 legs, got pretty nearly all they could from a committee, 

 which attached more importance to gilt cards and 

 waterfalls than prizes ; but very few of the nineteen 

 recrossed the German Ocean. At Hamburgh, a crate 

 end came out with one of Mr. Bowly's Berkshires in it, 

 just as it was being hoisted over the side, and the sow 

 sank with a deep, sullen splash into the Elbe. For 

 nearly a quarter of an hour the German sailors stood 

 craning over the side of the vessel in mute expecta- 

 tion that the fresh pork would reappear, but poor 

 Fritz saw nothing but a few bubbles for his pains. 

 Yorkshire and Suffolk worked very amicably together, 

 and especially in one instance. A foreigner came up 

 to Mr. Fisher to buy the last of the Carhead lot. 

 " Ah ! I see de beautiful gentleman ; vot de prize 

 (price)?" "Fifteen guineas!" " Fifteen ginneys. 

 Ah ! dat ginnsy again. Yah ! Fifteen pound !" The 

 bargain had reached this stage, when the mistake as 

 to sex was explained. " Ah ! de beautiful lady ; if I 

 could buy de beautiful gentleman for de beautiful 

 lady, I would buy de beautiful lady." So Mr. Fisher 

 took him round to Mr. Crisp, and for 3<D/. he got " de 

 beautiful" pair. The price was paid in thalers of three 

 shillings each, and the two Kits carried them in a 

 basket slung upon a pole. There was no telling where 

 to keep them all day, so a hole was- dug in the pen, 

 and they were buried with a crate above them till the 

 Kits could resume their burden, and convert them into 

 a banker's draft. * 



" Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage ; 

 Minds innocent and quiet take that for a hermitage. " 



So sang the poet of the Royalists ; and Charles 

 Waterton by that mysterious and solitary worship of 



* Yorkshire and Lancashire breeders generally run on the middle or 

 large breed, and fanciers on the small. Scotland and Ireland are all 

 for the large, and so are Australia, America, Prussia, Holland, Spain, 



