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George Culley, Esq., of Fowberry, were the active, 

 judicious, and sensible authors of many of the 

 agricultural reports, in which they did not lose 

 sight of the farmer. They wished to inculcate the 

 principle of "to live and let live" between landlord 

 and tenant. 



It will readily be supposed, that, where such 

 exertions were made, and pains taken to breed the 

 best kinds of all the domestic animals, jealousy 

 and envy would be excited, and contentions arise 

 as to which were the best ; but for me to dilate 

 upon this would only lead me out of the way. I 

 shall, however, notice an instance, as it happened 

 to occur between my two friends, Mr. Smith, of 

 Woodhall, and Mr. Bailey. The latter, in connec- 

 tion with his report on Cheviot sheep, had given 

 a bad figure of a ram of that breed. This was 

 construed into a design = to lessen the character of 

 Mr. Smith's Cheviot sheep, on which, in April, 

 1798, the latter sent for me to draw and engrave 

 a figure of one of his rams, by way of contrasting 

 it with the figure Mr. Bailey had given. The 

 colour Mr. Smith gave to the business was, not to 

 find fault with Mr. Bailey's figure, but to show 

 how much he (Mr. Smith) had improved the breed 

 since Mr. Bailey had written his report. 



Whilst I was at Woodhall, I was struck with the 

 sagacity of a dog belonging to Mr. Smith. The 

 character for sagacity of the Shepherd's Dog was 

 well-known to me, but this instance of it was ex- 

 emplified before my own eyes. Mr. Smith wished 

 to have a particular ram brought out from amongst 

 the flock, for the purpose of my seeing it. Before 

 we set out, he observed to the shepherd, that he 

 thought the old dog (he was grey-headed and 



