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wliose dam did credit to lier Tarn O^Shanter trotting 

 blood, in Mr. Sharpens brother-in-law's Sir Thomas 

 Kirkpatrick of Closeburn^s drag, and then ran in the 

 "Defiance/^ and finally in nn Edinburgh cab. His 

 half-brothers Tom Linne and The Friar both fol- 

 lowed Knockhill after a Derby and St. Leger forfeit 

 had been paid for Tom, and two more own brothers 

 joined them at four years old. Gubaroo, bought 

 from his breeder, Captain Archdale, was another of 

 Mr. Sharpe's selling, and, great as he was at stone 

 walls, he nearly killed himself over one in Amisfield 

 Park. Mr. Tinning of Tinwald owned Dumfries, 

 and when Mr. Sharpe sent for the horse, wdio v/as on 

 sale, and bid Bob Carlyle get on him near Repentance 

 Tower, Bob never repented more. 



Our stroll round the house was soon over, but the 

 outlyers had to be seen. The old Ayrshire cow Meg 

 is fully sixteen years old, and still milking superbly. 

 She was a model in early life, when she won four 

 prizes, and there are scarcely any marks of age on 

 her now, except the prodigious length (15 inches) of 

 her horns. The brood mares and sheep were sharing 

 the cattle-field pasture. There roamed Johanna 

 Wagner, who had won two or three things in her 

 day, with a foal, Ravenshoe, by Mr. Sharpens own 

 horse Maudricardo of Mr. Greville^s breeding, Cora 

 Linne, a full sister to Montrose, who belongs to 

 Will and Bob, and was due, like Trip the Daisy 

 (Butterfly's own sister), to Chevalier d^Industrie. 

 Both Trip and Cora were winners ; Trip scored the 



