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Cumberland or Dumfriesshire ;^^ and Damsel and 

 Daphne are his delight. The former gravely gave 

 him a paw, in testimony of their eight seasons toge- 

 ther. " She never ran a hare in her life, and when 

 the young'uns are taking a tour, she sits down and 

 lets them rattle away." Merrylass, sister to Malak- 

 hoff and dam of Matchless, had been down south to 

 Mr. Parry^s Sultan, but had only whelped a contribu- 

 tion of a couple towards the twenty couple which are 

 sent out annually among the Marquis of Queens- 

 berry^s, Mr. Hope Johnstone^s, and other walks. 



Joe^s horse Captain came with him from Cumber- 

 land, and lasted for six or seven seasons. Horses do 

 last with him, and they say in the county that he 

 picked up one for 7s. 6d., and that it was se^n 

 ridging up turnips on his farm six years afterwards. 

 His mind must be quite torn between the advan- 

 tages of artificial manures and sheep dips, and their 

 effect upon scent, as he has five hundred acres in 

 hand, and twenty score of sheep, as well as four 

 ploughs going. He also kills some twenty pigs a 

 year, and was therefore fully qualified to ride in 

 the farmers^ race at Ayr. Ever since he was at 

 Tarn Wadlin he has had a fancy for leather flap- 

 ping, and his white jacket and black cap, and his 

 small 9st. 51b. figure inside them-, have been seen 

 blazing av*ay at Hawick, Langholm, Lockerby, 

 Whitehaven, Paisley, Blaydon, and sometimes at 

 Carlisle, where he won the Citizens^ Cup on Lizzy of 

 Brampton. 



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