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and Mr. Guerrier^, the London salesman, was received 

 most cheerily when he said he had been the first to 

 receive an ox consigned by water to London. Ellman 

 sent Southdowns to Perth in'So, and Hugh Watson 

 refused .€100 for a Leicester tup, one of those cele- 

 brated three from Keillor, of v/hich, as we have be- 

 fore mentioned, each judge got one. Sir John 

 Campbell confessed himself fairly beaten over cattle 

 and sheep points, and told his audience, when he 

 spoke at the dinner, that ''^ he should not have much 

 chance of being raised to the (show-yard) bench.^^ 

 Next year the steam plough succeeded once in 

 moving three hundred yards in 3^ minutes, and then 

 it stuck fast in Lochar Moss, although Mr. Parkes 

 and his men had been in strict attendance on it for 

 three weeks before. Sir James Graham worked up 

 his audience with one of his finest speeches, which he 

 concluded by repeating, in reference to ^' The Buc- 

 cleuch^^ — 



" Constant still in danger's hour" ; 



and the battle between Aitchison and Brydon waxed 

 hot over- the Cheviots, the one winning with his tups 

 and the other with his ewes. Glasgow had one of its 

 great meetings in ^38, when Sergeant Talfonrd 

 spoke to a toast, and 16,920 people paid to go 

 on The Green. Inverness in ^39 was marked by a 

 crusade in the discussions against the shorthorn 

 crosses, which were fast creeping in and making the 

 Highlanders very jealous; but the voice of Mr. 

 Wether ell was heard on the other side, and he met 



