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was his owner, and on the second day his farm-house 

 at Greenburn, where the oat-cake is supreme, followed 

 suit with Askerton Castle. Little Watercress, from 

 the Farlam kennel, made capital work when she beat 

 Earl Grey. We were amused at the demurrer which 

 her sub-trainer put in to the suggestion of one of the 

 London Press, that the hare had favoured her in the 

 run-up : "May be ; but they 11 still place themselves with 

 sic gentlemen as yon? Despite the rough and "chancy" 

 ground over which we coursed, the day was an 

 amusing one, and the enthusiasm extended into the 

 very bowels of the earth, as there would scarcely be a 

 man at Messrs. Thompson's colliery who was not in 

 some sweep or other on the two events, and keenly 

 alive to the victories of Destiny and Mabel Smith. 



