92 Saddle and Sirloin. 



next year, at the Carlisle show, where Priam, nothing 

 loth, confronted him again, and Mr. Studholme's 

 Maximus was declared the winner. 



Mr. Sober Watkin was generally pretty handy in 

 the show yard, and Cumberland came boldly out, at 

 Mr. John Maynard of Harlsey's sale, with ninety-five 

 guineas for the yearling bull Chorister, by Velocipede. 

 This bull was let to Mr. Troutbeck, of Blencow, and 

 his calves as well as Wallace's heifers formed a strong 

 item in that gentleman's catalogue when in 1838 he 

 for the first time gave his conventional invitation to 

 his "friends and well-wishers at Blencow, at 12 o'clock, 

 where they may rely upon farmers' fare and a hearty 

 welcome." Old Dorothy Draggletail, by Marmion, was 

 purchased by Mr. Parkinson for 29 guineas, and re- 

 named Dorothy Gwynne. Mr. Curwen took Straw- 

 berry (19 guineas), which was descended from a cow 

 bought at Bishop Goodenough's sale. Thus two rare 

 keen judges picked out the cows which afterwards 

 made the herd, and founded two essentially " Cumber- 

 land tribes."* 



We are not going to wander so far as Ravenglass 

 and the grave of Velocipede,t but we must not leave 

 the neighbourhood without a word for the late Cap- 

 tain Spencer, an equally good judge of a greyhound 

 and a Shorthorn. John Irvine, whose good-humoured 

 face and burly form in a green coat and a rough cap 

 are so familiar to every public courser, was his trainer. 

 When " the season," as he styled it, was over he might 

 be seen as busy as a bee, now with the greyhounds, 

 now with the silver pheasants or the fowls, now with 

 Leila, Lizzy, Sappho, Bloom, and the rest of the 

 Shorthorn herd, in fact putting a helping hand to any- 



* The Blencow herd was sold off by Mr. Strafford, in 1859, at an 

 average of 56/. \2s. 6c/. for 41 head. Twenty-six G Wynnes averaged 

 66/. i6j. gd. 



f See " Silk and Scarlet," pp. 223-26. 



