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were those relics of a great Towneley day, Double 

 Butterfly, Barmpton Butterfly, and Phoebe Butterfly 

 and Double Butterfly 2nd, which are never apart. 

 William Ward indulged in all the joys of anticipation 

 over a red heifer calf from Phoebe Butterfly, and when 

 that was over he led out the Witch of Endor to drink 

 at the fountain and show her Christmas beef. Then 

 came the delightful stroll over the drawbridge and 

 away to the stables. Heseltine was off to York with 

 fifteen yearlings, each led by one of the " Whitewell 

 Rangers," as he calls that fine clan of young fellows 

 who live in the valley, among blood stock, game, or 

 agriculture, and bear a hand when August arrives 

 with its pleasant York meeting holiday. Gutter 

 Sands, hard by the great salmon hole, in which the 

 Colonel delights on fishing days, was once the training 

 ground, b#t there was no hill in it, and how Heseltine 

 could ever prepare Doefoot and Rejoinder and win with 

 them as he did, was a miracle. Buttercup hit her leg 

 before the York meeting, when The Sawyer's running 

 with the Spy at Stockton told them that some 

 good things were in store, and she never could do 

 strong work again. Her dam Butterfly was barren in 

 her third year, and then she died producing her third 

 foal, quite a chestnut monstrosity by Kettledrum. 

 Water on the brain had swelled its head into the size 

 of a young West Highland bullock, and it took 

 eighteen " Rangers" at the ropes to bring it away. 

 The grave of Butterfly is in the hot corner of Lea 

 Wood plantation, near the gateway where Miss Grim- 

 shaw stood and brought down her twelve brace of 

 pheasants on a memorable day, and farther on we 

 reach the boxes which hold " The Kettle" and " The 

 King." The old horse's back is beginning to give a 

 little more from age, but one-and-twenty summers 

 have not been hard on him, and when he does go 

 there will not be a Velocipede sire left in the land. 

 Middleham still remembers how he used to go up the 



