2 1 6 Saddle and Sirloin, 



them" When we saw that fond and yet triumphant 

 leer, we did not wonder (though in stature she was 

 not the woman to wrestle with a bull) at the recital of 

 that mysterious fascination on which she next dwelt, 

 when the mention of Young Graziertouched another and 

 a still tenderer key. Away she went at score, leaving 

 our pencil and note-book staggering hopelessly behind. 

 " Aye ! Young Grazier— you've got that right enough ; 

 — he was a savage one, but I could just handle him 

 as I liked. None could lead him out to please my 

 lord, like old Anna!' Waxing bolder, we then cross- 

 examined her as to their parting scene. " Took him 

 away when he was sold? Now who's been telling you 

 that t Of course I did. No one else dar come nigh 

 him. I walked seven miles on end with him, that I 

 did. I liad clogs on in those walks, a?td I could use 

 'em quick too? To a last inquiry as to whether she 

 had not extended her walks in another direction, and 

 driven True Blue's dam to the butcher at Stillington, 

 she gave us to understand that she had a slight weak- 

 ness for that " coo " as well, and was determined to 

 " see the far end of her!' And on we strolled from this 

 old marvel to see the modern herd. We had received 

 a parting assurance that " they can give a good pedigree 

 of me at the far7n up yonder — a five-and-forty year 

 yau," which would place the commencement of her 

 premiership back to about 1818. Before that date, 

 the first Lord Feversham, then Mr. Charles Duncombe, 

 had nothing but Devons, and found them too delicate 

 for the climate, and the Barmpton sale was the begin- 

 ning of his shorthorn herd. 



Duncombe Park is bounded on the west by the 

 valley of the Rye. The broken ground across the 

 river, which terminates in one point in the dark green 

 of the Waterloo plantation, which was planted as a 

 wood of victory by the late lordly father, is singularly 

 rugged and beautiful ; and a distant peep of the hills 

 of Hambleton may atone, to " a stable mind," for 



