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known as Jack o' Lantern with Lord Darlington's 

 hounds, when the Duke's country extended from 

 Borough Bridge to Sunderland Bridge, and took in 

 the Badsworth as well. Mr. Booth was never more 

 in his element than at the Catterick horse show, which 

 was held on the town green each October, until an 

 unhappy lawsuit divided the committee. There were 

 about 30 classes and sometimes 300 entries from foals 

 upwards. Ratan, The Cure, Bay President, and Young 

 Priam were generally well represented, and four three- 

 year-olds by the last-named horse once fetched 200/. 

 apiece shortly after the show. The Killerby-bred 

 one went South and made 500/. the next year. This 

 colt's own brother, Saltnsh, a favourite mount of Mr. 

 Cradock's for eight seasons, won twice on the town 

 green. 



By land Mr. Booth had quite the best of his brother 

 Richard, who was never given to active pursuits, and 

 was only a quiet gig man from very early days. It 

 was very different in water, where Richard was a 

 wonder. In fact, from the time he was a round, rosy 

 boy at Tate's there was no sinking him ; he could 

 swim over the low deeps at Richmond with a lad on 

 his back ; at Redcar he once floated two miles out to 

 sea, and a boat was sent after him by the lookers on ; 

 and he could sit and wash his feet in twelve feet of 

 water and support himself by a slight rocking motion. 

 Mr. Booth was no singer, but full of joviality and good 

 stories as well as the neatest practical jokes. Among 

 his best stories was " Forbidding the Banns," which 

 he told of a woman with an impediment in her speech, 

 who always said " Gin-a-gin" by way of preliminary, 

 and not only forbid the wrong banns, but stuttered 

 out before all the congregation that she did it on the 

 authority of " Squire Booth of Killerby." His friend 

 Wetherell generally had his guard up, but when he 

 received a letter, apparently from Earl Tankerville, 

 saying that he was to lot and sell the wild cattle of 



