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Nimrod was by Muley out of a ^^ Turk mare/' and 

 had all tlie family action. Monarch was a great bay 

 horse, far too big, and put them all unsound in the 

 Penrith district. 



'^ There have been a great many good cart-sires. 

 Young Clyde had fine action, and a light middle. 

 Blythe did wonders. He had won at the Highland 

 Society and at a great many other places, and they 

 picked him up to go South. He was kept there three 

 or four years, and then they said he was too big, and 

 exchanged him with Mr. Fawcett of Scaleby for a 

 coacher. Then Wilson of Eurgh got him, and he 

 made him pretty well. He had him more than eight 

 years, and he took the Carlisle prize five years run- 

 ning. The Stitchers were the old sort, bays with 

 short legs, and wide and sound. Mr. Ellis of Ne- 

 therby brought Stitcher to the Bush Inn, and began 

 the new sort forty years ago. Scotch Miracle was 

 one of his sons, and Young Clyde was off that tribe. 

 The Scotch Miracles were square, well-set horses, 

 great at a dead weight or on a farm. Mr. Borth- 

 wick's horse was a thick one by Stitcher; and 

 Glancer was smaller than some of them, but very 

 good in action and everything else.^' 



The Terrona, or rather the Flask Wood pheasant 

 covers, stretch down the Ewesdale valley, which we 

 had now entered again on the south side, after riding 

 nearly three hundred miles across and down Scotland 

 from Hawick. We found disease busy among the 

 larches, first attacking those between ten and thirty. 



