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inflation through the nostrils with the kitchen bellows 

 brought it round at all. In process of time " Queen" 

 grew into rather a nice little heifer, and bred Second 

 Queen of Trumps to Belleville, in the days of his 

 twenty-five guinea renown. The old cow, whose name 

 is historical in connexion with the Killerby and 

 Warlaby herds through her son Mussulman became 

 so much crippled, that Penrith had the eating of her 

 in '47. Second Queen of Trumps was then chopped 

 away to Mr. Douglas, of Athelstaneford, for Baroness 

 Amelia and two others ; and her cross with the 

 400-guinea Captain Balco, produced Third Queen 

 of Trumps, who swept the three royal national two- 

 year-old heifer prizes on "the grand tour" of '58, 

 and died within sight of New Orleans that winter, 

 with 450 guineas on her head. Such were the 

 Netherscales variations upon the popular " Cherry 

 Ripe." 



A seven-miles ride past Plumpton, the home of 

 the late Bob Gordon, the wrestler, and on through 

 a fir-and-heather-clad country, brought us at last to 

 the pleasant vale of the Eden. The afternoon shadows 

 were chasing each other on the Crossfell range behind , 

 and our companion, who was cunning in cloud- 

 language, foretold that the helm-wind — of which we 

 had heard the Rev. Mr. Watson of Cumrew discourse 

 so well, two-and-thirty years ago, before the assembled 

 savans at Newcastle — would be out for his wild revels 

 among shed-roof and hay-stacks before nightfall. 

 Nunwick Hall, with its old manorial grange, and its 

 knoll of oak, ash, and sycamore, which crowns the 

 home-meadow, looks the shorthorn home to the life ; 

 and the stone bulls rampant on the gate-pillars keep 

 fitting watch and ward. The late Mr. Saunders was 

 full of quiet enthusiasm, and we often think how he 

 showed us his capital stedding, how Nunwick "walked 

 so well away" from us, and how he placed the white 

 Roman-nosed Pearl in position under an ash, as a 



