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the place as the shorthorns_, and came originally from 

 Mr. Nutt, a solicitor in York_, who fled in his mo- 

 ments of leisure from calfskin in the smooth to pigskin 

 in the rough. It was to Yorkshire that '' Faldon- 

 side" also looked for a cross_, and found it in one of a 

 prize pen of Lord Wenlock^s. 



A bull "with a fine deep forehand, and of course 

 with a dash of St. Albans, thrust his head over the 

 rails for a word, as we passed to the stables. There 

 we found George Goodfellow_, who would remind us 

 of a celebrated ex-jockey grown a little older, as 

 cicerone to three hunters, and a grey pony " as good 

 as she's bonny.'' There Y\'as Empress by Mar otto, 

 the heroine of the wire-fence feat once on the Che- 

 viots and again in the A^ale ; but George was not 

 surprised at it, as she '' always goes as straight as an 

 arrow'' The Falstaff mare has not been tried as yet 

 in this high art jumping, but she seemed to have 

 quality and cleverness enough for anything, as you 

 stand behind her and look at those hocks and 

 quarters, and the pleasant white reach head with 

 which she was always saluting the terrier " Dunny" 

 below the manger. 



Pepper and Jock are two more of the Dandie breed, 

 and in direct descent from the ^'^Charlieshope" terriers. 

 Greyhounds live only in stone on each side of the 

 door ; but John Jardine, an old class-mate at Gala- 

 shiels, and the sharer of many a lioliday with the 

 gun and bag, fell back on his Faldonside recollec- 

 tions for a name for one of his Judge-Ladylike litter, 



