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say as he stood before the Darlington H nnt picture 

 in his hall " those dark eyes fairly looked through you'.' 

 The spirit must have been still strong upon him, as, 

 when no convoy could be got for six weeks, he " stole 

 back" once more, and then, true to time, forsook 

 Womersley and Hemsworth Lane Ends, and dropped 

 down the Channel at last. His life from that point 

 is told in his Wanderings. As Sydney Smith wrote 

 of him, " the sun exhausted him by day, and the mos- 

 quitoes bit him by night ; but on went Mr. Charles 

 Waterton. * * He rejoices that he is the only man 

 there ; that he has left his species far away, and is at 

 last in the midst of his blessed baboons." 



It seemed passing strange when, after a walk of 

 three or four miles from Wakefield, with railways to 

 right of you, railways to left of you, the park gate 



shower ; and for two or three years he was very successful. Among 

 the Leeds pig fanciers, Mr. Gavin held a high place ; but Mr. Dyson 

 is quite the emperor of them now, and buys and shows a good one of 

 the large breed whenever he can. Mr. Sagar, of Sa.ltaire, is a great 

 local shower, and once took a second at the Royal, with a sow of Mr. 

 Wainman's breed, beating Golden Link. This sow won the Keighley 

 Challenge Cup, which is decided, not by marching out all the winners, 

 but by special entry before the classes are judged, so that the cup pig 

 is got out of the way, and not allowed to compete in its class. Mr. 

 Mangles is the largest Yorkshire pig breeder. He was a pupil of the 

 late Mr. Watson, of Bolton Park, Cumberland, and got a rare boar, 

 Bendigo, from him, of the small white breed. -Latterly he has stood 

 more on the middle breed and always prefers the small boar in the 

 cross. He has won two Royal prizes, but Birmingham has been his 

 field of the cloth of gold. He "composed" a nice flecked pig by 

 crossing blacks and whites ; but sometimes it only comes out with a 

 little blue on the quarters. Black-eyed Susan was a very nice sow ; 

 and she and the celebrated Brutus were both of The Squire, and full of 

 Thormanby blood. Mr. Mangles maintains that bacon should be fed 

 for less than 6d. per lb., and that pigs should pay for all they consume 

 without taxing the manure. New milk, to encourage sleepiness, 

 warmth, cleanliness, and regularity, keeping the styes rather dark, and 

 laying down ashes for the pigs to root over when they are not in the 

 field, are very salient points of the system. Mr. Peter Eden has been 

 very successful lately at the Royal meeting with the blood of King 

 Lear ; and he and Mr. Duckering seem to be the great winners of the 

 day. Each took four first prizes at the Manchester Royal. 



