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THE GREAT HOUSE AND HOUND SHOW, 

 IN YORKSHIRE. 



Agricultural Societies are g-etting- more and more 

 ambitious of their attractions. They are no longer content 

 with the simple essentials of a cattle show proper — the 

 placid Shorthorn, the beefy Hereford, the trim Southdown, 

 or that martyr monster of liog''s flesh, whose continued 

 existence seems to centre on the undisturbed half-hour's 

 repose so necessary after rather too hearty a dinner. With 

 due consideration for our wives and daughters, poultry 

 and flowers have come to a recognised place in the pro- 

 gramme j although one high-born dame will feed her own 

 pork, and another unglove her j ewelled hand to try the 

 touch of a Duchess heifer. Then, have we seen at the 

 Sparkenhoe Club a row of shepherds' dogs ranged side by 

 side with the fleecy Leicesters and towering Cotswolds ; 

 while a handsome coUey put forth his intelligent head, 

 conscious, as it were, of his many personal advantages 

 over his merely useful bob-tailed opponents. At Bir- 

 mingham a counter display of pointers, setters, and Clum- 

 bers has carried us bodily out of Bingley Hall into the 

 Repository ; and at Boston, a few j^ears back, a baby 

 show in the morning, and a round of fireworks in the 

 evening, helped out the anniversary of the North Lincoln- 

 shire Association. Never shall we forget the utter de- 

 spondency, the weary, hope-broken attitude of one unsuc- 

 cessful exhibitor, as she sat in a corner of that dog-hole 



