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lingham, we took up our abode with my kind old 

 friend John Bailey, and spent a cheerful evening 

 with him after our fatigue. Next day, Mr. B. 

 accompanied me to the park, for the purpose of 

 seeing the wild cattle. This, however, did not 

 answer my purpose ; for I could make no drawing 

 of the bull, while he, along with the rest of the herd, 

 was wheeling about, and then fronting us, in the 

 manner described in the "History of Quadrupeds."* 

 I was therefore obliged to endeavour to see one 

 which had been conquered by his rival, and driven 

 to seek shelter alone, in the quarryholes or in the 

 woods ; and, in order to get a good look at one of 

 this description, I was under the necessity of creep- 

 ing on my hands and knees, to leeward, and out of 

 his sight ; and I thus got my sketch or memoran- 

 dum, from which I made my drawing on the wood.f 

 I was sorry my figure was made from one before 

 he was furnished with his curled or shaggy neck 

 and mane. 



On our return home, my companion and I took 

 up our abode for two days and nights, at Esling- 

 ton, in the apartments of our kind and hearty 

 friend, John Bell, then steward to Sir Harry 

 Liddell, Bart., and afterwards a merchant at Aln- 

 mouth. Having made a drawing from the large 

 Newfoundland dog kept there, and rambled about 

 visiting some of Mr. Bell's friends, we then bent 

 our way homewards, highly gratified with the 



[* See vol. iii, p. 39.] 



[f The " Chillingham Bull" is dated 1789. Bewick is said to 

 have considered it his masterpiece ; but he excelled it in many of the 

 Birds. An accident to the block however gave the early impressions 

 an abnormal value. (See Hugo, " Bewick Collector," 1866, pp. 430- 

 441 ; and Thompson's " Life and Works of Thomas Bewick" 1882, 

 ch. xiii.) ] 



