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CHAPTER V. 



" A very important toast has been placed in my hands. It is no less 

 a toast than the health of the Lord-Lieutenant and the Magistracy. 

 Well, now, the Lord-Lieutenant is a very celebrated agriculturist, and 

 so great is the interest he takes in agriculture, that he has carried his 

 agricultural improvements to the top of Shap Fells. I believe, gentle- 

 men, that is the ordinary speech to make about the Lord- Lieutenant on 

 these occasions (great laughter). As to the magistracy, ' the great un- 

 paid,' they have always conducted themselves in a manner honourable, 

 consistent, satisfactory, and disinterested in every way, and we can have 

 no doubt that they will in future continue to do the same (hear hear). 

 That, gentlemen, is, I believe, the proper thing to say about the magis- 

 trates (cheers and great laughter). * * * Now as to draining and 

 the steam plough. There is another thing that wants draining, perhaps 

 more than the land. I think people's minds want draining (cheers and 

 laughter). Get the fences removed ; get the stones removed ; and above 

 all, get old prejudices removed, and steam cultivation will pay." — Mr. 

 William Lawson, at the Penrith Farmers' Club Dinner, 1865. 



Mr. Unthank — Old Cherry and Captain Shaftoe — Nunwick Hall — 

 Among the Herd wicks — Mr. Crozier's Hounds — Wetheral — Farlam 

 Hall and its Greyhounds — The Brampton Coursing Meeting. 



MR. UNTHANK is a familiar figure to the fre- 

 quenters of our shows, not exactly from the 

 white bulls of Chillingham to the pilchards of 

 Penzance, but at all events from the Tweed to the 

 Medway, and in the Isle of Man. He gave up his 

 Galloways about 1834 in favour of Venus, by Crof- 

 ton's Cripple, and old Cherry came on to the scerie 

 at Netherscales about the beginning of 1843. She 

 was calved in the summer of '28 : but nature seemed 

 to have exhausted itself, and she was tied up to feed. 

 For years she had been a sort of heroine in Mr. 

 Unthank's mind, although he had never seen her ; 

 and when, by the merest chance, he heard of her 

 doom, he set out at once for Yorkshire, in quite a 

 spirit of knight-errantry, and bought her, with her 



