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liim^ and then begged him off. His owner was sorely 

 anxious to see the judging, but the rules did not 

 allow of more than one attendant. Accordingly he 

 bluffed his black, and took hold of one side of his 

 head, while his groom took the other, and, by met- 

 tling him up a bit, persuaded the policemen ti:at he 

 had such a savage in charge that they fell back in 

 mortal terror. When he was once in his stall the 

 bandage Avas still left on, and " BoghalP^ slipped 

 down the ranks and ^' got a pig to wait on.^^ With 

 such advantages he obtained as extensive and as accu- 

 rate an insight into the judges^ proceedings as he did 

 into Parisian life and customs, when he crossed the 

 Channel in 1856 as charge d'affaires of the Scottish 

 stock under Mr. Hall Maxwell. At the right moment 

 he signalled the man to take off the bandage, and out 

 came the Champion, stepping like a pony, and well 

 might the Marquis of Tweeddale say *' He wins in a 

 canter/^ 



The Show at Aberdeen in ^40 confirmed the an- 

 ticipations of six years before, that there Y»^ould hardly 

 be a good horse, and they were well tried on the 

 granite. In ^44 the show was again at Glasgow, not 

 in the cattle market, but on The Green. This was 

 the year of Loudon Tarn, a very Blair Athol among 

 Clydesdales, with his beautiful bone and silky hair. 

 There was also a very good four-year-old mare, but 

 not equal to Mr. Frames mare in ^48. It is well 

 known that their coats are washed with butter-milk 

 till they look all glazed and painted ; but this mare 



