114 HISTORY OF THE SHORT-HORNS. 



death been added to it. The land is better in character than that at 

 Killerby ; it is chiefly clayey loam, and grows fine wheat and turnips, 

 and long hay. The pastures are well adapted for cows, but unsuited 

 for sheep, because liable to be flooded. The River Wiske, which 

 still retains its Gaelic name, Uisg (water), being the most sluggish of 

 all the North Yorkshire brooks, and having the shallowest stream- 

 channel, frequently overflows the lower pastures, and large, deep 

 ditches, which have been fatal to many a good cow, intersect the 

 fields to carry off the water. 



" The house was everything that an old bachelor or his friends 

 could require; and many a visitor there can bear testimony that 

 within its walls reigned supreme the open-hearted northern hospi- 

 tality to an extent that Southrons know not. Many a valuable cup 

 and hard-won medal may there be seen; the portrait of many a 

 prize-taker decorates its rooms ; and many a pleasant hour has been 

 spent and ancient story told in that quiet Short-horn home, while 

 the genuine old Squire 



Refilled his pipe, ' and showed how fields were won.' 



" Shortly after settling at Warlaby, Mr. Richard Booth had quite 

 made up his mind to give up the breeding of Short-horns, and had 

 already sold individual animals from the Strawberry and Moss Rose 

 tribes, when a bantering remark made by a gentleman in the neigh- 

 borhood, to the effect that 'the Booths had lost their Blood/ incited 

 him to change his purpose, and put his friend's assertion to the proof. 

 The Warlaby herd had for some years past been kept very much in 

 the shade, Mr. Thomas Booth having been latterly intent only on 

 breeding useful animals, without aspiring to the honors, or courting 

 the notoriety of public exhibition ; but Mr. Richard Booth felt 

 assured that it contained ample materials to enable him to guard the 

 laurels that had been bequeathed to him." 



After giving with such luxury of description the home of Richard 

 Booth and its hospitable occupant, Mr. Carr goes into an enumera- 

 tion of most of the animals adopted as the bases of his productive 

 herd, for he had now made up his mind again to heartily enter the 

 list in competition with the other breeders of his vicinity for new 

 laurels and honors. He was an enthusiast in his love of Short-horns, 

 and as we before remarked having no domestic cares to withdraw his 

 attention, his whole mind was directed (as a Short-horn breeder's 

 should be, if he means to excel) to the propagation and improvement 

 of his herd, and in it he eminently succeeded. 



