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tually, after a fashion : ^^ Girth, indeed'! we donH like 

 'em to girth oiver much doon at our place' ^ — an ex- 

 pression ^?hicil ran round the yard like wikl-fire- 

 Except when the Society was at Newcastle^ Mr. 

 Pindlay has never sent any pigs to the English 

 iloyal. He there took his stand on the small whites, 

 and was second with George 1st to Mr. Mangles^s 

 Brutus^ and third to Mr. Wainman^s Silver Branch 

 and Mr. Steam's Victoria 2nd, with his Lady Emily. 

 The latter and Silver Branch met again at Stirling, 

 and the Scottish Bench reversed the Royal decision. 



Mr. Findlay and his brother Major Findlay breed 

 Clydesdales at their farm of Kenmuir, two miles 

 further on, from which their father sold Briton' to 

 the late Piince Consort, some nine years since, at 

 250 gs. We found there the three-year-old sire 

 which vv'as second to Mr. Stirling's Baronet in a good 

 field at Kelso, the third-prize two-year-old filly at 

 Stirling, and some local winners, to say nothing of 

 Eabula (dam of Lord of Linne), an old Knockhill 

 acquaintance, with her Warlock foal. 



Merryton, the home-farm of Hamilton Palace, was 

 the next on our list, and was reached by a v/alk of 

 two miles from Hamilton. Except when we chanced 

 to be toiling along, carpet-bag on back (and intended 

 to stand whisky to give it a ride, and follow on *' the 

 cow and calf principle'^), we didn't look much at the 

 carts, but here we were bound to note that they were 

 all green, with red wheels — a fashion which extends 

 from Tinto to Greenock, when the red and all 



