144 FIELD AND FERN. 



ifMiLSfIiEF0Bi f8 CSLBSfiEii. 



" Mr. DoxkijST, fully sensilole of the especial favoui- that has been conferred 

 npon him, by having placed in his hands this commission of Sale, and no less 

 <;onscioiis of the responsibilities which such a tnist imposes upon an Auc- 

 t.ioneor, considers it his duty to avail himself of those Channels thi'oiigh which 

 tidings of deep interest are conveyed to the Agricultm-ists of the United 

 Kingdom, to call attention to an oi^portunity about to present itself for the 

 purchase of Farmmg Stock of Surpassing Excellence and to the infusion of 

 rJie best blood of the Shorthorns, the Leicester Sheep, the Cart-horse, and 

 the Bacon Swine into districts now laudably emulous of an eminent niche in 

 the Temple dedicated to the manes of Bakewell and Collings, of Cully and 

 Ba.iley ; Avhile to the Agiicultm-al Student fresh from the Arcadian Acade- 

 mies, and about to commence on his own Account the tranquilizing iDursuits 

 ■of a Farmer, the means are here placed within his grasp to lay the solid fomi- 

 dation of a breeding flock that will relieve him from the Sacrifices attendant 

 'ipon a correction of those deformities in Animals, which pubhc opinion now 

 <Ieclares shall no longer be tolerated in om- markets. Upon a closer inspec- 

 tion of the stock upon Farm, however well the Draught horses maintain 



the character of the blood that has for generations run in their veins, and 

 though tiiie to the texts of the Herd Book are the aristocratic portion of the 

 ■cattle, yet commentators must allow that the Leicesters will form the most 

 prominent featm-e of sale." 



Ride across the Lammcrmoors — The Highland Society's Show at Kelso 

 — A Sketch of it in 1833 — Kelso Race-course — Kelso Jlani Fair — 

 Scenes in the Sale Yard — Lord Polwarth's Sale — The Border Leices- 

 ters — The Yetholm Gipsies — The Earl of "Wemyss's 1 founds and 

 Hnnters at Coldstream. 



:^wo sliirts and three pairs of stockings proved but a 

 ^ slender segis against 16 degrees of frost, as we set 

 our mare's head before daylight straight from Athel- 

 staneford over the Lammermoors. We began the 

 ascent beyond Tester, the residence of the Marquis 

 of Tweedale, one of the very best farmers and '' all 

 round'^ judges in Scotland. The wind cut us 



