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TDecause, much as she liked the Eose of Promise, 

 she could not then pass over the darkness of her 

 horn. First Fruits and British Flag from Warlaby 

 and Red Bates were used in the next herd, which 

 came to the hammer last autumn. Mr. Ather- 

 ton was there for the Cherries, and Southwick 

 Cherry Flower (100 gs.) and Southwick Cherry (61 

 gs.) went back with him to Speke. A heifer, Eliza 

 (60 gs.) changed hands for Broadholm, and Clarionet 

 and Bose of Cashmere went with good reason for 

 merely butcher^s price. 



Joe Graham shall tell hereafter of the fun he had 

 with the late Marquis of Queensberry among the 

 Criffel foxes; and therefore we must merely wind 

 round the foot of it past New Abbey and " The 

 Durham Ox Inn^' — a pretty plain proof that we are 

 drawing near English soil — to the heart of that great 

 pork centre, Dumfries. 



There is not a farmer in Dumfriesshire, Galloway, 

 and a great part of Ayrshire who does not feed pigs, 

 not for ])ig-racing, but solely for the curers. Car- 

 cases also come to Dumfries from Annan, Fife- 

 shire, Stirlingshire, and Perthshire. Cumberland 

 feeds many more pigs than it used to do, especially 

 in the east ; and its Brown and Watson boars have 

 done much towards keeping up its bacon charter. 

 Dumfriesshire and the Stewartry have a never-failing 

 supply ; but in Ayrshire the pigs get so much milk 

 that they groAV beyond " Cumberland Bacon^^ size, 

 and are consumed round Glasgow. The skins are 



